New drive already has vfat after new fdisk

[Nat Gross]

On 1/26/06, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
> Nat Gross wrote:
> >
> > ok. just ran mkfs on sda1, sda2, sda3.
> > Now, I notice this line in /etc/fstab:
> > /dev/sda1               /media/usbdisk          vfat
> > pamconsole,exec,noauto,utf8,managed 0 0
> >
> > It seems like FC4 decided to that for me earlier, since this is a usb device.
> > Anhow, do I need all those options (for the new mounts)?
> > Thank you all;
> > -nat
> >
> Any fstab entry that has the managed option is a temporary eentry. The
> entry gets removed when the device is unplugged. I am not sure if
> the version you are running handles drives with more then one
> partition...
Since I don't plan on removing the drive [often] I can just set it up
as any [internal ] drive without the managed option, I guess. (As
mentioned earlier in the thread.)
Thanks;
-nat