flash drive mounted under root

[stan]

On Fri, 18 May 2007 21:42:16 -0400
oleksandr korneta <atenrok at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 
> on 05/18/2007 12:08 PM Tim wrote:
> > oleksandr korneta:
> >> PS: I hate the person  who came up with *brilliant* idea to move
> >> all the removable stuff mounting configurations from fstab,
> >> everything was so clear and easy there...
> > 
> > As far as I'm concerned, removable media ought to work all by
> > itself, without you having to do anything with fstab.  It's the
> > damn computer, it should figure out what to do.
> 
> Tim, one thing I know for sure that in FC4 all the configuration was
> managed through fstab and when I used to plug the pen drive the mount
> point was created in /media and correspondent string was added to
> fstab (thanks to whatever package was in charge of it). Thus, I was
> able to either mount it manually or through the file-browser. And
> everything was clear and transparent. And now this topic is 4 days
> old and no one even can tell me where is the hal policy stored, so I
> can identify the problem and fix it manually.

Hear! Hear! Exactly.

> 
> > 
> > Removable media can be a right pain with fstab, but you can still
> > use it.  Though be prepared for headaches when it comes to things
> > not being connected at boot, USB drives that get plugged into
> > different USB sockets or connected in different orders (/dev/sda
> > one day, /dev/sdb the next time you plug it in after plugging in
> > another device, first).
> 
> I am familiar with this, and I know that pain, but at least whenever
> something was wrong I knew it is my fault and I have enough expertise
> to fix it. Now I know nothing.
> 
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