From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GAE7A-0001UT-70 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:02:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k77MxpBe031191; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 22:59:51 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k77MvBr5009818 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 22:57:11 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 0137620036F for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 00:57:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA39720036A for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 00:57:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.241.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1c.2) with ESMTP id 15692496 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:57:11 +0200 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] writable devices being mounted as read only Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 00:57:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <44D79957.7020503@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <44D79957.7020503@verizon.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608080057.10772.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 9c436621-a336-4d4c-b19a-5146c4d5fb3e X-Archives-Hash: 9aaaf6713b2eaf1888f05e69446c5014 On Monday 07 August 2006 21:49, sean wrote: > Hello All, > > Whenever I mount my USB DVD writer or my SCSI cd-rom writer I always > get the following similar message for either device, root or otherwise. > > mount /mnt/dvd/ > mount: block device /dev/sr1 is write-protected, mounting read-only > > Both devices in my fstab have 'noauto,user,rw' but still the write only > message. well, if you mount a burnt blank, it has to be read only. Empty blanks can not be mounted. So everything seems to be ok. And if you want to write to a +rw blank, you don't mount them too. AFAIR of course. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list