Discussion about: "99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi"

[Mark]

>
> For a live CD which should be able to mount partitions on the host
> computer,
> it's easy to zap that policy file (it's just an rm in the .ks file for the
> live
> CD). But beware not to use that live CD on computers with older GNU/Linux
> distributions which don't support the latest ext3 features installed.


not realy
that would work with FC6 and probably below but not with FC7. the default
value is set that you don`t see the partitions.. it doesn`t mather if you
have that 99 policy or not in that case.. it mathers when you want to ENABLE
it. then the value needs to be chanmged and that can be done serveral ways..
the easiest is editing the 99 file but it is also possible in the thing that
is actually mounting it (hal or udev)


2007/5/12, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>:
>
> Another good argument which hasn't been cited in this thread yet is that
> the
> locations the device mounts to aren't (or weren't when this was
> introduced,
> maybe this has improved) guaranteed to stay constant across reboots.
>
> And in addition, automounting an ext2/ext3 partition from an older version
> of
> Fedora or RHL (or another older distribution) can make that system fail to
> boot
> due to new ext3 features like extended attributes getting enabled, which
> the
> old kernel can't deal with.
>
> IMHO, fixed devices are really what /etc/fstab is for. This also gives you
> the
> advantage that you can pick any mount point you wish (for example /c for
> C: if
> you dual-boot that proprietary OS which still uses drive letters in 2007)
> instead of getting something like /media/VOLUME_LABEL or /media/DISK_1 or
> whatever automatically assigned.
>
> For a live CD which should be able to mount partitions on the host
> computer,
> it's easy to zap that policy file (it's just an rm in the .ks file for the
> live
> CD). But beware not to use that live CD on computers with older GNU/Linux
> distributions which don't support the latest ext3 features installed.
>
>         Kevin Kofler
>
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