Re: Procedure on mounting USB/hotplug devices

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 09:06 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 August 2007 02:18, Tim wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 21:40 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > > 4) This next daemon/service (which one??? autofs?) catches this
> > > signal, reads off the device's label (if it has one), creates a new
> > > directory named /media/label and modifies /etc/fstab accordingly so
> > > that /dev/device can be mounted to /media/label.
> >
> > It was quite a few releases ago that the fstab file was subject to being
> > rewritten automatically.  Now, automatically mounted things are mounted
> > without altering it.
> 
> So you are saying that the data that was to be written in /etc/fstab is now 
> written somewhere else for "mount /media/label" to find it? Where would that 
> be? I couldn't find anything in man mount.
> 
Nothing is written in fstab upon a mounting. The mount command (alone
without argument) will tell you what is mounted or the suggestion of
looking in /etc/mtab will work also.
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