On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 15:53 +0000, Tom Horsley wrote: > > 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. > I think you are right. Now the XP patition is mounted without inserting the memory stick. Very strange. -- ======================================================================= It just doesn't seem right to go over the river and through the woods to Grandmother's condo. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines