[F8 i386] Drive mount locations change at startup.

[Scott]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Scott wrote:
>  >
>> In addition all "problem" drives aren't showing up in fstab at all 
>> (which I find rather odd).
>>
>> I've got 2 external drives (1 partition each) and 2 other internal 
>> drives (several partitions).
>>
>> All were mounted as I wrote this.
>>
>> However..
>>
>> $ cat /etc/fstab
>> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /                       ext3    
>> defaults        1 1
>> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    
>> defaults        1 2
>> tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   
>> defaults        0 0
>> devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  
>> gid=5,mode=620  0 0
>> sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   
>> defaults        0 0
>> proc                    /proc                   proc    
>> defaults        0 0
>> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                    swap    
>> defaults        0 0
>>
>>
>> Where are they here?
>>
> Did you configure mount points for them during install, or are they 
> being mounted automatically on mount points in /media? 

Mounted automatically (albeit sporadicly).

 >If you did not
> set up mount points for them during install, and did not add them later, 
> then they will not show up in /etc/fstab. You may want to create entries 
> and mount points for the internal drives if they are not removable.

I'll give that a try.

 > For
> removable drives, you will probably not want to create fstab entries for 
> them - it can cause problems when booting with the drives disconnected.

True.

Thanks.