On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 10:39 -0500, Colleen Beamer wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm a creature of habit - I'm used to mounting and unmounting devices > using "Disk Management". I got a shock a few days ago when I > installed FC3 and wanted to mount my zip drive. When I clicked on > Disk Management, I was told that "there were no devices that I was > allowed to mount", or something to that effect. > > At this point, I thought I was going to edit fstab and despite the > comment "This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for > details", I did edit the fstab file, only to find that the changes > didn't "stick". So, I read the man page for fstab-sync, but this > wasn't any help. The only fstab-sync file that I could find on my > system was: > > /etc/hal/device.d/50-fstab-sync.hal, which is a symlink to > /usr/sbin/fstab-sync > > So what fstab-sync file am I supposed to be editing or am I supposed > to create one. Whether I edit a file or create one, what is the > format of the line that I am supposed to enter to allow mounting of my > floppy, my zip and my CD-RW drive when I click on the "Disk > Management" menu choice? > > Sure, I can use the KDE disk mounting utility, KwikDisk, but like I > said, I'm a creature of habit and I would like to know how to be able > to set up disk mounting/unmounting using the Disk Management utility. > > Regards, > Entries in fstab that say "managed" or that have "none" as the device are changed on mine. Entries I put in that are related to things I want loaded stay and are stable. > Colleen >
