What do I put in fstab to get my DVD/CDROM burner to work?

David J Brooks freysman at comcast.net
Fri Nov 16 19:21:29 PST 2007


On Friday 16 November 2007 08:23:21 pm Gary Kline wrote:
> 	I've googled aroound, and can't be sure what to  add in the
> 	FStype column to get my DCD/CDROM  burners to work.  Ubuntu
> 	installed ny 2005 burner automagically.  Nothing like that for
> 	FreeBSD, so can anybody clue me in what I substitute for
> 	"udf" and "cd9660"?
>
> 	This is the old and current fstable:
>
>
> # DVD drive (top)
> /dev/acd0               /media/cdroms/0 udf     ro,noauto       0       0
> # CD-burner (bottom)
> /dev/acd1               /media/cdroms/1 cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0

cd9660 is what you need. for the burner at least though, you'll want to make 
it rw rather than ro.

This chapter of the handbook: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html

and the one that follows are worth a careful reading.

David
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