My "standard" fix for this has always been to include /cdrom and /floppy as
"noauto" entries in fstab.

+ Kim
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Kimmo Suominen
kim@tac.nyc.ny.us

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| Having to type 'mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0a /mnt' rather than
|        'mount /dev/cd0a /mnt' always annoys me :)
|
| The diffs to have mount check disklabel for a filesystem type
| _only_ in the case where both device and mountpoint are specified
| without -t are quite small - attached below.
|
| Is there any reason why something like this isn't in the
| tree, and if not, does the following look reasonable?
|
| David/absolute
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