On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 09:06 +0000, 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. > Nothing is written in fstab upon a mounting. The mount command (alone without argument) will tell you what is mounted or the suggestion of looking in /etc/mtab will work also. -- ======================================================================= Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
