Mount Other filesystems

[Chris Hillman]

Maynard Kuona wrote:

>I think this is the biggest omission (OK maybe not), but I think Redhat
>needs to configure itself to automatically mount FAT partitions without
>requiring the user do that.
>
I think this may have more to do with FAT32 support being technically in 
*Alpha* stage (or at least that was the warning I saw before installing 
rhgb) ... though I have not heard of problems with FAT32.

>In fact, it should mount any partitions it
>recognizes automatically, and give them names in some determined way.
>
That may stir up some controversy... especially if it any corruption of 
data occurred as a result.

>This could always be changed in fstab. It really irritates that after
>installing Redhat 9, I have to mount the partitions manually. I know I
>can do it during install, but its still too damn hard.
>
I think that is the hard part... ease of use, or ensuring other 
filesystems will stay safe.

>And a graphical client to set up partitions wouldn't hurt either.
>
Agreed... isn't there a way we could run disk druid post install to 
replace using fdisk and mkfs?.. and have it push changes to the fstab?

-Chris