Where is it?

[Clay Weber]

On Tuesday, August 27, 2013 03:24:47 PM kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org wrote:
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> On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Clay Weber wrote:
> > No, it is not KDE or Kubuntu hiding anything, it is udev,
> > which dynamically handles various devices automagically.
> > There are various udev rules set up to handle mounting,
> > permissions, etc for them. Most of these are located in
> > /lib/udev/rules.d.=C2=A0
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> >=20
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> > Perhaps if you describe what you might be wanting to
> > accomplish, someone might have some pointers on editing
> > these rules.
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> > Clay Weber=C2=A0
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> I'm trying to put together a proper mounting line in
> fstab or mtab, (wherever it's supposed to be), for my
> CD/DVD drives. The info used to be just about everywhere,
> but now I can't even seem to find it online.
> 
> So it's something in lib/udev now?
> 
> Bill
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Define 'proper moutning line".

As I think I understand it, optical drives are not actually mounted until 
media is inserted. Then the device is mounted with proper user permissions, 
etc as needed. /lib/udev/rules.d is one place where the criteria for devices 
and actions are defined. 

I am not sure but I don't see why you could not create an fstab entry for your 
optical drive if you wanted. It has been quite a while since mounting and 
accessing these without being root/using sudo was a hassle, which may be why 
it is hard searching for information.

If you insert a disk and run the "mount" command, you will be able to see how 
it is mounted, then try creating an fstab entry based on the information seen 
there.

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Clay Weber (claydoh)
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