How to Auto Mount an Internal Blu Ray

[banagalemr]

I am trying to auto-mount my internal Blu Ray drive but up to now unsuccessful. My Blu Ray is connected via SATA. I am tired of mounting the drive each time I start the computer. Thru some searches, I found out that this can be done by adding it on /etc/fstab. I edited the /etc/fstab file and added this line:

/dev/sro /media udf,cdfs,iso9660 user,auto,exec,utf8 0 0

But each time I boot the machine, the /etc/fstab is being overwritten and my addition to it are lost.

Is there a way to accomplish this? Is there something I missed in /etc/fstab? I have very minimal knowledge when it comes to Linux OS.

Thank you.

 

[Ericloewe]

You can do that with a startup script.

 

[banagalemr]

You can do that with a startup script.

Thanks, Ericloewe for your reply. I will have to do further reading on how to accomplish what you suggested.

One thing I don't understand is why I have to manually mount the Blu Ray. I have a Dell laptop with built-in DVD Rom running Ubuntu. But I don't have to mount the DVD Rom. Ubuntu recognizes it as part of my hardware. Maybe this is the way Truenas works.

 

[Ericloewe]

Ubuntu is preconfigured for that because it's a Desktop OS.

 

[banagalemr]

Oh, I see and yes it is a Ubuntu Desktop. Thanks for your explanation, Ericloewe.

I did further reading on creating a startup script. Inside Truenas scale GUI, by going to System Settings >> Advance >> Init/Shutdown script, I can add my startup script here. I still have no idea how to assemble the script. Am I in the right direction?

 

[Ericloewe]

They're just normal shell scripts, so the starting point would be whatever commands you need to mount the drive.

 

[banagalemr]

Thank you EricLoewe. Appreciate very much your help. I will give it a try and let you know the results. Cheers.

 

[banagalemr]

Hi Ericloewe,

I had success in auto-mounting the DVD drive. I used my laptop for testing and it works. I used cron. I put this on my crontab "@Reboot /root/scripts/name_of_my_scripts.sh". to mount the drive when I reboot or restart my machine. It will not mount when there is no media in the tray, so I make sure that I have media on the tray when the machine is restarted. With further reading, I found out that it can be done by creating udev rules. But this is too complicated for me. For now, I am happy with this solution. I will now try this out on my TrueNas Scale machine.

Thanks again for your help.