Ubuntu – Auto-mount CD/DVD drive to single, specific mount point every time

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Currently, whenever I insert a CD or DVD into my DVD drive, it mounts to a location such as /media/<LABEL>, where <LABEL> is the arbitrary label assigned to the optical disc.

I remember, once upon a time, CD and DVD media being reliably located at /media/cdrom0 or something similar. Why was this changed? And how do I get this old behavior back for this drive?

I can understand this behavior for USB sticks. It makes sense for those. But not for CD/DVD media, in my opinion. For example, because of this, I have no way to configure Wine to point to my DVD drive, as the mount point changes with every single CD I insert.

TL;DR: How do I make CD/DVD media always mount to /media/cdrom0?

Best Answer

If you have one cdrom drive, add this line to your /etc/fstab:

/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

Make sure you edit it as root. Ie: gksudo gedit /etc/fstab or sudo nano /etc/fstab.

The Ubuntu documentation has a really good article on this.

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