FC3 and zip disk

[C. Linus Hicks]

On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 01:11 +0000, Donald Ray Lott wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 00:09 +0000, Donald Ray Lott wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I thought I had figured out why my zip drive was not working, but looks
> > like FC3 is tricky!
> > 
> > The problem is that now /etc/fstab is re-written every time the system
> > is booted by the hal daemon (hald). /ect/fstab reports the zip drive as
> > hdd when it really is hdd4. You can no longer change the settings
> > in /etc/fstab so how do you get it to work correctly?
> > 
> > I can mount hdd4 by command line ok.
> 
> man fstab-sync
> 
> is called by hald. I tried commands in a terminal but received a
> message to the effect that fstab-sync was nowhere to be found.
> >From there, one is lead to all the files in hald and even to udev.
> 
> So, does anyone know the fix?

The executable for fstab-sync is in /usr/sbin which is not typically on
your path unless you are logged in as root. You can get rpm to show you
where the various parts of a package such as hal are installed:

rpm -qil hal

As far as your question about correctly mounting the zip drive, check
out the following URL. It doesn't address exactly your issue, but it
should get you pointed in the right direction.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-November/msg00984.html

That combined with the section of the output from 'lshal' pertinent to
your zip drive should give an idea of what needs to happen.

-- 
C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc.rr.com>