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Jay Cliburn jacliburn at bellsouth.net
Sat Oct 21 18:07:53 UTC 2006


Globe Trotter wrote:
> 
> --- Jay Cliburn <jacliburn at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
>> Tim wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 16:41 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote:
>>>> Please note that /dev/hdx device names are going away in the future --
>>>> even parallel ATA disks (IDE) will be called /dev/sdx. When this
>>>> happens, references to /dev/hdx in grub config files or /etc/fstab
>>>> will break. 
>>> This seems to be a MONUMENTALLY STUPID thing to do.  [snip]
>> You should direct your complaint to the kernel developers.  That's where this
>>
>> change comes from.
>>
>> Jay
>>
> 
> And how about the no automatic editing feature in FC5 (started from the middle
> of FC4 onwards)? Where does one direct complaints on this? It is unclear to me
> and several others why this feature was removed?

Complain where you wish, so long as you recognize that your complaint might not 
do any good, given the incorrect venue.  My response to Tim was actually 
intended to help.  (Whether or not it did is another matter.)  Complaining in 
this list about something that comes from upstream seems a bit pointless to me, 
unless you just want your opinion heard, I guess.

> 
> The release notes for FC4+ say: use gnome-mount. Which comes with no
> documentation, 

FC6 has a nice manpage for gnome-mount now.

> and what if users like me decide not to use gnome or KDE? Should
> they be expected to give up on Fedora?

I use gnome, so I can't answer your question.




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