Where is it?

[kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2013, Clay Weber wrote:

> On Tuesday, August 27, 2013 03:24:47 PM kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org wrote:

>> 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
>>>
>>> =20
>>>
>>> Perhaps if you describe what you might be wanting to
>>> accomplish, someone might have some pointers on editing
>>> these rules.
>>>
>>> =20
>>>
>>> Clay Weber=C2=A0
>>
>> 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
>>
>> --8323329-1366304756-1377617086=:19879--
> Define 'proper moutning line".


One that works properly, without any hassels.


> 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.


Unless it isn't found because nothings been burned onto it
yet.


/lib/udev/rules.d is one place where the criteria for devices
> and actions are defined.


Actually, I found the contents of these files to be so
arcane, that they were completely unhelpfull.


> 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.


I did that, but it didn't work. I even put in a movie DVD,
and ran smplayer, but still no fstab/mtab entry.

Bill