Monday, August 1, 2005

change fstab for Iomega REV drive

Here is a post of my fstab entries for getting my Iomega REV drive (USB) working in Suse 9.3

/dev/dvdrecorder     /media/dvdrecorder     subfs      noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/dvd     /media/dvd     subfs      noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/rev     /media/rev     subfs      noauto,fs=subfs,rw,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0

Stop mounting /media/VOLUME_NAME

Mounting a REV disk as /mnt/VOLUME_NAME is really a pain. So to force it to mount as /mnt/rev I did this (much like the /mnt/iPod force)
sudo vi /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy/cddvd.fdi

 


  

       dvd


       dvdrecorder


       rev


       rev





sudo rchal restart
I hope you find this useful.