Description of problem: Hello, Since passing to the new method of having a dynamic /dev (udev), information in "man mount" is incomplete. Describing a mounting process simply as: mount -t type device dir is not satisfactory, since one cannot know in advance the "device" denomination. For quick reference, "man mount" should describe the canonical way of mounting a drive in command-line mode, including a method of quickly discovering the "device" name. Regards, Răzvan Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): util-linux-2.13-0.51.fc7 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: "man mount" doesn't include all information which is necessary to mount a drive in text mode. Expected results: "man mount" should describe the canonical way of mounting a drive in command-line mode, including a method of quickly discovering the "device" name. Additional info:
Use LABELS or UUIDs. Also.. there are /dev/disk/by-* symlinks.
Sorry, but I won't conside this "fixed" until someone doesn't point to some more extensive documentation/procedure. "mount -t type device dir" used to be a *simple* task. Now, without a quick reference in the man page, viewing a CD or a floppy in text mode requires a degree in Computer Science... ? ;-) Regards, Răzvan
Well, I'll add some note about blkid(8), vol_id(8) and /dev/disk/by-* to the mount man page.
Hello, Could you please point me to a step-by-step procedure for mounting a CD/DVD ? Imagine the following situation: 1. I connect to some machine remotely. 2. I know *nothing* about the remote hardware (names of drives, labels, etc.) 3. I have a disk in the remote DVD drive. 4. I want to mount the disk via ssh and copy its content on the HDD. How do I do ? Pliiiiiiiz... It used to be *simple*: mount device dir. Now ? We (users) simply don't want (or have time) to read details about the filesystem structure and philosophy just to mount a disk... Thank you, Răzvan
mount /dev/cdrom /mointpoint