On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 15:00:12 +0200, Richard Lyons wrote:
> My CD says
> Could not mount device.
> The reported error was:
> mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
/dev/cdrom is a symlink to what? (Hint:
ls -l /dev/cdrom
to find out. It might also be interesting to know what drive your CD-ROM
is.
dmesg | grep CD
should be helpful.)
> fstab entry looks reasonable to me:
>
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
Looks right, the problem is probaly /dev/cdrom's target. BTW,
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto
is totally sufficient.
> And, if that is not enough, the CDRW says
> Could not mount device.
> The reported error was:
> mount: only root can mount /dev/scd0 on /cdrw
>
> I've given permissions on /cdrw.
The permissions of the mount point are actually irrelevant. I even chmod
all my mount points to 000 so that I can't accidentially use an unmounted
mount point. (After something has been mounted on a mp, it's permissions
automagically change to something else, which depends on the mount
options.)
> What have I forgotten here?
You haven't shown us the fstab line for /cdrw. Most probably, the "user"
option is missing.
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