On my system, /dev/sr0 isn't a real file anyway; it's just a link to /dev/scd0. I made a new directory, /cdrecord. I then did a symlink from /dev/scd0 to /dev/cdrecord. Then I added an entry to fstab: /dev/cdrecord /cdrecord iso9660 rw,user,noauto 2 2 and now I can mount my cdrw just with the command mount /cdrecord and this also means I can mount both my cdrom and cdrw at the same time if I want to do so for some reason.