Marko Vojinovic wrote: > 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. > At one time, the code that mounted hotpluged devices would create an entry in /etc/fstab for them. This is not done any longer. But an entry in /etc/fstab has never been necessary in order to mount a file system. There is usually an entry created in /etc/mtab when a file system is mounted, and the process gnome-mount uses still creates this entry. But you can mount a file system without an /etc/mtab entry being created. (the -n option of mount) You may want to compare /etc/mtab with /proc/mounts sometime... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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