Mount my dvd and Cd drives

I have both cd and dvd burning drives, and ever since I first installed arch they've been innaccesable, and their contenst invisible.
Two cd drives (one too many) and a dvd drive are listed in /media, but I can't see any of their contents.
Something I used to be able to do using nautilus (I'm using whatever xfce4 comes with now) in ubuntu.
I've tried
mount -t auto /dev/dvd /media/dvd
But I get told to specify the filesystem type. Which I don't know, and probably varies accross different types of cdrom and dvdrom.
I'd like to be able to see, and use, both my cd and dvd drives for movies, music, and burning. And I'd like to be able to see their contents easily in the termnal or the file broswer.
Any help would be appreciated, I don't want to use Ubuntu

Forgot to mention - I've been using root, which is in the optical group.
It didn't work, and just told me to specify the filesystem type again.
My fstab says:
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /media/cdrom1 auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
Again, one to many cdrom entries, but I don't know which one is correct.
hal is currently added to the deamons to run at startup.
Last edited by desm (2009-03-01 16:22:54)

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Auto-detect & mount disk partitions and removable drives

I use ubuntu in addition to my current wip of installing arch linux.Now i have installed lxde desktop. But i am not able to see any of my partitions of my disk and other hdd. Besides removable drives also dont get mounted.
Similarly if a new partition is created the same also gets autodetected in ubuntu. eg my arch linux partition. I need not go to do any fiddling in the system to recognize the same.
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cfr wrote :
What do you mean when you say that pcmanfm is not displaying *any* partitions? You see no files at all? Or do you mean: it is not showing partitions not listed in /etc/fstab?
I mean it is not showing partitions not listed in /etc/fstab. As of now pcmanfm shows only the arch systems partitions which I created while installation : root, and home. Balance of partitions of other systems of the same drive and second hard drive is not shown.
When you say that in Ubuntu, newly created partitions show up automatically, do you mean that if you change the partitioning on your internal drive, the changes are automatically reflected in /etc/fstab?
Yes the changes are automatically reflected in the filemanager of ubuntu, ie. Nautilius. However Ubuntu fstab as you see in the previous post of mine contains no entry to other partitions other than just ubuntus.In the fstab I posted above you can very well see it just shows 4 partitions of hdd1 [similar to the way the arch fstab shows only its own] where it is installed :boot,root,home, swap. Whereas there is two more partitions there viz windows and a ntfs. You don’t see them in fstab, but when you open the nautilius filemanager you can see the drives. See the image link of my filemanger posted below at the end. In that shared data and windows are two ntfs partition of hdd1 where ubuntu is installed. Arch is installed on 2nd hdd alongwith a Ubuntu.289gb partition is a ubuntu LVM along with arch root and arch home you can see.
If you mean that Ubuntu automatically adds, mounts and unmounts partitions on removable drives when e.g. a USB stick is inserted or when you change the partitioning on one and create a file system, that you can configure to work automatically in arch.
Yes ubuntu automatically adds, mounts and unmounts partitions on internal drives and also removable drives when e.g. a USB stick is inserted . As you can see in the image i have posted, it shows all my internal drive partitions automatically. No fstab editing nothing. No fiddling with system files so far i have done in ubuntu. For eg i installed arch a month back, the same you can see is automatically seen in the image. All i required was to update grub to recognise árch'. Post that when you boot, automatically the new arch partitions are seen. No fstab fiddling anything. Thus tomorrow morning if i create a new partition on my hdd via ubuntu all i require is to reboot post the creation and i will see the new partition asap.
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As far as the lxde wiki is concerned, there it is mentioned to install polkit gnome gvfs for mounting and i did the same but nothing still happens.
So this is what exactly i am asking how to do the same on my arch system. So if i am guided i wil go ahead and work to achieve the same.
image link of file manager : NautiliusFileManager
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