On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Andy Zbikowski wrote: > Instead of having /dev/cdrw you'll most likely want to sym link /dev/hdc > (/dec/scd0, or whatever your drive shows up as) to /dec/cdrw ( ln -s > /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrw ) as adding/removing devices may change the location of > your drive sometime down the road. I'm already using a sym link. > fstab would be the same as your cdrom: > /dev/cdrw /mnt/cdrw iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 I guess this is where I'm confused. Isn't the whole point of having a CD-RW (emphasis on the "W") so you can write on it? If I put 'ro' in fstab, how will that affect things. Also, can't I put an ext2 filesystem on it? -Tim -- Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.k12.mn.us/ | http://www.zope.org/ W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org/ wilson at visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com/