Robert said: > I'm running FC3, kernel 2.6.9-1.667 and thoroughly confused by hal & > friends. I have a USB disk drive (a real drive) and a 256MB flash drive. > Consider this snippet from /var/log/messages, with comments inserted: > > > # First, I insert the flash "drive", followed by the Maxtor drive [snip] > Jan 20 07:32:27 mavis fstab-sync[3532]: added mount point > /media/LEXAR_MEDIA for /dev/sda1 [snip] > fstab-sync[3722]: added mount point /media/NO_NAME for /dev/sdb1 > Jan 20 07:32:51 mavis fstab-sync[3726]: added mount point /media/OTOT > for /dev/sdb2 [snip] > # Then re-insert, but in reverse order: > Jan 20 07:35:05 mavis fstab-sync[4225]: added mount point /media/NO_NAME for /dev/sda1 > Jan 20 07:35:05 mavis fstab-sync[4229]: added mount point /media/OTOT > for /dev/sda2 [snip] > Jan 20 07:35:23 mavis fstab-sync[4405]: added mount point > /media/LEXAR_MEDIA for /dev/sdb1 [snip] > This doesn't really matter when I manually mount the drive(s) from a > terminal 'cause it all gets worked out with /etc/fstab: [rj@mavis ~]$ mount > /media/LEX* Because the mountpoints are consistent. > ...but it sure plays hell with trying to use device icons on the KDE > desktop because apparently a snapshot of the fstab is taken when the > desktop device is created and that's that. Perhaps someone else has > already fought this battle and won? Sounds like a KDE bug to me. The mount points are consistent so that is what KDE should be using. -- William Hooper
