Procedure on mounting USB/hotplug devices

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

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. 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. But you can mount a file system without an
/etc/mtab entry being created. (the -n option of mount) You may want
to compare /etc/mtab with /proc/mounts sometime...

Mikkel
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