Procedure on mounting USB/hotplug devices

[Casey Stamper]

On 8/7/07, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at panet.co.yu> 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.
>
> Best, :-)
> Marko
>
> Marko Vojinovic
> Institute of Physics
> University of Belgrade
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I think dynamic mounts are in /etc/mtab.

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