fstab-sync wipes out /etc/fstab

oleksandr korneta mai11ist at fastmail.fm
Mon Oct 17 03:24:29 UTC 2005


on 10/16/2005 10:04 PM Jeff Vian wrote:

> The coherent thing here is that all devices that are _media_ are having
> the mount points created in /media.  The mount points are dynamic and
> are created/removed when the device is attached/removed.
this does not convince me. I dont see the difference between the
mounting of temporary filesystem and my temporarily mounted
flashdrive/mp3player/digital_camera

> 
> The tool that does that is udev.  IIRC there is a file in /etc that
> tells udev how to handle things but I do not remember the name of it. 
the tool is actually fstab-sync (the one that changes /etc/fstab) and
the config file name is
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-storage-policy.fdi

see other posts.


-- 
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta




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