edgy eft: udf discs wrongly automounted as iso9660

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Feb 2 13:52:42 UTC 2007


Stefano Vesa wrote:

> When I put a UDF formatted DVD or CD disc in the drive of ny laptop, the
> disc is always auto-mounted as a normal iso 9660 disk.
> If I want mount udf I have to manually unmount it and remount with:
> mount -t udf ...etc.
> 
> In my fstab I have the line:
> 
> /dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
> 
> but it seems useless because I think that some daemon, probably HAL,
> gets rid of it.
> 
> Anyone has the same experience or has a solution?

I recommend simply removing the line from fstab.  Let Hal & pmount take care
of it automagically.  I _haven't_ tried this with udf disks, but ime
putting CDs into fstab is always problematic.

btw, pmount will mount the disk in /media, but probably not at cdrom0.
-- 
derek





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