On Tuesday 07 August 2007 13:30, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > 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. Understood. Things have evolved since FC4, it seems. ;-) > 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. Ok, so what is this process? Gnome-mount does not seem to work for me if Gnome is not running. (see my post to Tim for details). Best, :-) Marko Marko Vojinovic Institute of Physics University of Belgrade ====================== e-mail: vmarko@xxxxxxxxxxxx
