disk mounting issue (question/rant)

[bootdoc]

why does K/Ubuntu configure the /etc/fstab with an entry for /dev/sdc0 and other such entries for cdrom? It screws up usb disk recognition i.e. usb disks get mounted as cdrom devices thereby giving bad superblock errors. It is easily fixed by commenting out the cdrom entries in fstab.

[dibl]

Re: disk mounting issue (question/rant)

It screws up usb disk recognition i.e. usb disks get mounted as cdrom devices thereby giving bad superblock errors.

Really? That sounds kind of unusual -- have you seen this on multiple systems? I have never seen it, and I can't recall any other posts describing this. You're saying USB "disks" -- do you mean external hard drives or USB optical drives?

[bootdoc]

Re: disk mounting issue (question/rant)

every install i do I have to comment out the /dev/cdrom entry in /etc/fstab for usb drives including usb sticks and media devices like mp3 players to mount correctly.

[Detonate]

Re: disk mounting issue (question/rant)

I have never seen this. Don't know what the problem is, but could you post your fstab so we can take a look at the entry you have commented out.

[jglen490]

Re: disk mounting issue (question/rant)

Here's my /etc/fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>  <type> <options>    <dump> <pass>
proc      /proc      proc  defaults    0    0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=ddc23db9-22cc-4a47-afce-03cb94f4c576 /        ext3  relatime,errors=remount-ro 0    1
# /dev/sda2
UUID=4329e25d-75db-4f5e-987e-c9021497d82b /home      ext3  relatime    0    2
# /dev/sda3
UUID=c82a5e3c-d4d4-4666-8014-1b1a6aca9261 none      swap  sw       0    0
/dev/scd0    /media/cdrom0  udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0    0
/dev/fd0    /media/floppy0 auto  rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0    0

i have a /dev/scd0 entry and I can mount as many USB sticks as I want without a problem. There must be something, perhaps like a udev rule, that's funky.

[Detonate]

Re: disk mounting issue (question/rant)

I don't see anything in the fstab that would lead to the problems you are having.