fstab-sync

[Peter Hutnick]

I'd like to make some changes to my mountpoints, but this new
hal/fstab-sync system is completely opaque to me.  The man page (which
I can't get to just now) suggests reading some XML files and a web
page.  I think the web page was on freedesktop.org, which is down
right now.  The XML files were . . . not helpful.

I've been googling, but I can't find any sort of "getting started"
type guide to this new system.

I'd also like to weigh-in as thinking that XML files and kookie little
daemons are a step in the wrong direction from a "UNIX philosophy"
point of view.  Having changes to a (flat-text-thank-you-very-much)
file in /etc silently disappear on reboot is precisely the sort of
"advance" that I switched away from Windows to escape.

Anyway, any links would be helpful.

Thanks,
Peter