How to setup fstab for DVD, floppy and CD drives?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Wednesday, 19 January 2005 at 22:14:56 -0500, Carleton Vaughn wrote:
> Brian John wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I have a DVD writer, a CD writer and a floppy drive in my PC.  Since I
>> don't know what file system that a media will use until I put it in the
>> drive, how do I set it up in fstab?  This is what it looks like right
>> now for these devices:
>> /dev/acd0               /cdrom          auto    rw,noauto       0       0
>> /dev/acd1               /cdrom1         auto    rw,noauto       0       0
>> /dev/fd0                /floppy         auto    rw,noauto       0       0
>>
>> The problem is, when I click on a device, it says: "mount: exec
>> mount_auto not found in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file or directory
>> Please check that the disk is entered correctly."
>>
>> How can I get this to work?
> "auto" is in the FStype field, and your mounter is trying to find the
> mount program for a file system of type "auto".  There's no such thing.
>  Change "auto" to "cd9660" for the cd & dvd and all will be happy.
> Might I suggest changing one of acd[01]'s mount point to /dvd?  This
> might clear up any later confusion.
>
> Someone else probably better understands what "auto" in fstab is
> supposed to do.

On Friday, 21 January 2005 at 16:20:02 -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
>> From: Carleton Vaughn
>>
>> Brian John wrote:
>>> /dev/acd0               /cdrom          auto    rw,noauto      0       0
> <...>
>>> "mount: exec mount_auto not found in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file or
>>> directory.  Please check that the disk is entered correctly."
>>>
>>> How can I get this to work?
>>
>> "auto" is in the FStype field, and your mounter is trying to find the
>> mount program for a file system of type "auto".  There's no such thing.
> <...>
>> Someone else probably better understands what "auto" in fstab is
>> supposed to do.

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