I unmounted my dvd :(

hey guys I stupidly unmounted my dvdrw drive under suse and now I can't even boot from a disk.

I wanted to use the mount command to get it mounted up again, just missing a few bits like

where should I mount it?
do I need to do anything to the directory before mounting the disk to it?

cheers guys

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KGhaleon

I would make a joke about that, but nah.

How did you unmount the drive your OS is on? Is that possible?

BeaverC32

KGhaleon wrote:

How did you unmount the drive your OS is on? Is that possible?

And I could make a joke about THAT, KGhaleon, but I won't

He said he unmounted it on SUSE, and mounting/unmounting drives is quite common in linux.

Do you have an entry in /etc/fstab for this drive? If so just reboot. If not, I would add one (here is a link for reference).

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/suse-linux-help/65186-linux-doenst-mount-my-dvd-drive-always.html

aueddonline

BeaverC32 wrote:

KGhaleon wrote:

How did you unmount the drive your OS is on? Is that possible?

And I could make a joke about THAT, KGhaleon, but I won't

He said he unmounted it on SUSE, and mounting/unmounting drives is quite common in linux.

Do you have an entry in /etc/fstab for this drive? If so just reboot. If not, I would add one (here is a link for reference).

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/suse-linux-help/65186-linux-doenst-mount-my-dvd-drive-always.html

yeah there isn't an entry in my fstab file, does the mount command add on or do you use a txt editor

undomiel

You would need to use a text editor to add the entry to your fstab. The mount command is just a one time use type of thing, it will mount the device to the desired location until you restart the system or unmount the device.

BeaverC32

A better reference than the one I originally provided:
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

aueddonline

here's my fstab file, i'm pretty sure my drive is /dev/sr0 , what would my entry look like?

cat fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVS-_WD-WXE707294988-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVS-_WD-WXE707294988-part2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVS-_WD-WXE707294988-part3 /boot reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVS-_WD-WXE707294988-part4 /var reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
proc /proc proc defaults 00
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 00
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 00
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 00
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 00