[wplug] cdrom ls weirdness

[Frank W. Holden Jr.]

Russ Schneider wrote:

> Frank W. Holden Jr. wrote:
>
>> I have seen this numerous times when the cdrom or a hard drive is 
>> mounted. What happens is it doesn't determine the correct filesystem. 
>> Normally I see it when mounting a vfat and it thinks it is ext2... 
>> This can happen with floppies alot...
>>
>> If you are going to mount something, it is quite wise to use the 
>> option -t <fstype> when mounting.
>
>
> My system mounts the cdrom automatically with this in fstab:
>  /mnt/cdrom supermount 
> dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
>
> Once in a while messed up things like this happen.
>
> Is there a way to reset this or something?  SHould I manually type in 
> the above at command line after umounting the drive?
>
> P.S. Mandrake 9.1
>
>
Your fstab command is just fine on an over all look at cd's. If you run 
across this happening again, just umount the cd manually and remount it 
manually. The option in the fstab that can get you is fs=auto, but you 
can't get around this for auto-mounting. Try the manual mount using the 
-t iso9660. If you get a clean mount each time then you can change the 
fstab line to fs=iso9660...

Manual command example would be: mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom -t iso9660
Of course you know you have to be root to mount the cdrom OR you setup 
sudo to include you so you can  "sudo mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom -t 
iso9660" and if you want to add the 'ro' and/or 'iocharset=iso8859-1' 
and/or 'codepage=850'  with the -o <option>, but it shouldn't be 
necessary. The only time you should need an option is if you want to 
mount the cdrom to write, -o rw, if it is a writer and this would be far 
and few between in most cases.

Just a thinking out loud...
Frank


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