[Novalug] Ubuntu system continues to mount cddrives as root

[Angelo Bertolli]

Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
> when i edit  fstab if i do 
>
> sudo mount -a 
>
> is this supposed to change the mountings of the drives, etc, to the new 
> settings without my rebooting or do I have to reboot to see the changes 
> take effect?

-a     Mount all filesystems (of the given types) mentioned in fstab.

That's except the ones you have as noauto.  You're using sudo, so you're 
mounting them as root.  Like Don said, ideally, things like CD are not 
automatically mounted at boot (or with mount -a).  Instead, as a regular 
user you should be able to:

mount /media/cdrom

(Why, oh why did they get rid of /mnt ?)

Angelo