> But what also appeared was what looked like a 24GB memory stick mounted > also under /media/ After awhile I realized this was the partition of XP > on my machine. > > I have never seen this happen before can anyone explain this? > > There is no line for mounting that partition in fstab. It was HAL. Unless you browbeat HAL about the head and shoulders with custom .xml files, it desperately wants to automount everything it can find. If you have ntfs3g installed, then it can find XP ntfs partitions. See: http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/linux-tidbits.html#Hide%20Backup%20Disk for one example of magic xml. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines