/dev/sdb1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0The line should look like this after the edit:
#/dev/sdb1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0After this change, voila, the drive mounts as desired.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Invalid Mount Options Error When Mounting External Hard Drive in Ubuntu Linux
Being a recent convert to Ubuntu Linux, I ran into a problem that others may have experienced. When I plugged in my usb external hard drive I received an Invalid Mount Options error. I found a lot of information on the forums, but nothing was working. However, I discovered that Ubuntu was basically attempting to mount my FAT32 external hard drive as a CD-ROM. In order to fix this problem you need to edit /etc/fstab and comment out the line below by putting a # at the beginning of the line:
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Thanks a lot for your post..it helped me in resoling similar problem.
No problems. I actually post a bunch of stuff on here that I know I'm going to need later and forget about where I put it. ;-)
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