On Tuesday 07 August 2007 14:12, Aaron Konstam wrote: > 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. That's not the issue. I want to know how are those parameters determined for a hotpluggable device, *before* it is actually mounted. This is related to the fact that my usb flash memory does not get mounted automatically while I'm in runlevel 3, so there is nothing related in /etc/mtab. Since the kernel does detect the device and I can mount it manually, I suspect that whatever is determining the parameters for automounting does that wrong, and as a result the device does not get automounted. FWIW, everything works perfectly when Gnome is up, even KDE, but *not* without them. Best, :-) Marko Marko Vojinovic Institute of Physics University of Belgrade ====================== e-mail: vmarko@xxxxxxxxxxxx
