On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 10:59 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > > It is my understanding that only DVD-RAM drives with DVD-RAM media will > > allow one to mount a filesystem rw (for optical drives) - is this > > correct? > > Correct, but if you were to say erase an ext2fs while its mounted you'll > crash the machine probably > So, in light of this discussion, I guess it makes sense to remove the 'ro' option from any entry in the /etc/fstab for optical drives. I will prepare an update of hal for FC3 so Si can actually use his DVD-RAM drive and media without dropping to a root shell. Btw, it is my (personal) view that (commandline) tools should refuse to do this on mounted filesystems (unless forced); yes, I realise this is a departure from the old UNIX way of "we let the (power) user screw up his machine instead of asking annoying questions", but maybe that is just me. Thanks, David