Manually mounting of CDs/DVDs

Wolfgang wolfgang at rpi.net.au
Sat Nov 25 12:42:24 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 12:05 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> I have added the line
> 
> /dev/hdf /mnt/dvd auto
> umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
> 
> to /etc/fstab, in order to make it possible for a user manually
> mounting CDs/DVDs. However, I am not being successful:
> 
> $ mount /dev/dvd
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdf,
>        missing codepage or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so
> 
> $
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Paul
> 

Try replacing the "auto" with "udf,iso9660" and see how that goes.
That's what I use, and DVD/CD's mount without a problem. And I don't
think that "iocharset" and "codepage" is really needed..

Wolf





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