On Tuesday 07 August 2007 02:18, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 21:40 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > 4) This next daemon/service (which one??? autofs?) catches this > > signal, reads off the device's label (if it has one), creates a new > > directory named /media/label and modifies /etc/fstab accordingly so > > that /dev/device can be mounted to /media/label. > > It was quite a few releases ago that the fstab file was subject to being > rewritten automatically. Now, automatically mounted things are mounted > without altering it. So you are saying that the data that was to be written in /etc/fstab is now written somewhere else for "mount /media/label" to find it? Where would that be? I couldn't find anything in man mount. Best, :-) Marko Marko Vojinovic Institute of Physics University of Belgrade ====================== e-mail: vmarko@xxxxxxxxxxxx