FC3, the LVM and CDROM

[zjimward]

Okay, all these years if I wanted to mount my cdrom from cli, I typed:

mount cdrom

Now to mount my cd I have to type:

mount /media/dvdrom

How can I configure my system so I can type:

mount dvdrom

Thanks.

Here is a close solution:

Try creating a variable in your ~/.bash_profile
Note: ~ is a variable for your home directory

make it look something like this

# .bash_profile
                                                                               
# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
        . ~/.bashrc
fi
                                                                      
# User specific environment and startup programs

dvdrom= /media/dvdrom
                                                                               
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin
                                                                               
export PATH dvdrom
unset USERNAME

Then logout and back in and test it. the only thing is you will have to use

mount $dvdrom

You may be able to use alias command to get rid of having to use the "$"
I hope that's close to what you're looking for.

[zjimward]

Yes, I considered that or a .bashrc function to handle the same thing. I figured that it would be better to configure 'mount' instead of creating an alias or function. Thanks for the suggestions.

how does one go about configuring mount to use aliases? please post you results and how you did it.

[zjimward]

As far as I know you can't make an alias that can be passed to mount like an environment variable. You can do the following with alias:

alias mdvdrom='mount /media/dvdrom'
alias udvdrom='umount /media/dvdrom'

In this way you could type:

mdvdrom

To mount the dvdrom and type:

udvdrom

When you want to dismount the dvdrom. I'm not so sure there's a lot of time savings in typing either of these commands. I don't really use the mount cdrom much and in fact have noticed that it doesn't work under FC2 any more either. It's just old habits die hard some times and I got use to typing it, when I needed. Hope that answers your question. I know that if you type:

eject cdrom

That ejects the cdrom tray and:

eject -t cdrom

Retracts the cdrom tray, so some how it knows the mount point for the drive and mount doesn't.