Where is it?

[kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Luca Ferrari wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:24 PM, kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org
> <kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org> wrote:
>> So it's something in lib/udev now?
>
> No. You can always place a static line in the fstab, and that is the
> place where it need to be (mtab is automatically generated).


Which is part of what I've been trying to do. I have Two
DVD drives, only one of which has been operating reliably
over the last several LTS installations. Once I get fstab
working on one, no doubt with some slight modifications,
it shouldn't be too hard to get the other one working.

Then it'll be time to try and figure out what the
installation software didn't do about getting _both_ drives
properly set up in /dev and /media. Hopefully I'll be
able to duplicate what's needed without too much fuss, but
then how likely is that?


> The point is that having a plug and play system hardware can come and
> go and therefore the kernel has to populate /dev dynamically, this is
> the aim of udev(7). Ubuntu decided to use udev also for "assumed"
> static devices, such as cdrom, and therefore there are preconfigured
> udev rules for making the device appearing once a media is inserted.
>
> Luca>


That's still no excuse for disapearing the info needed for
doing things, "by hand", as OPS, (Other Peoples Software),
almost never seems to do everything you want/need it to do.

Bill