Udev and fstab - beginners question

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

Just clearing up a few things (i hope)

-hotplug is responsible for detecting that something new has been
plugged in (through a kernel-interface?), and loading the appropiate
module
-udev is responsible for creating devices when the module has been
loaded
-hal is responsible for creating the mountpoints in fstab, and by
default uses "user" in /etc/fstab for removable media
-gamin (or has dbusanything to do with this?) detects the change in
/etc/fstab and notifyes
-gnome-volume-manager, which should then show the new mountpoints, and
if set to do so, mount them (this is default)

do a cat of /etc/fstab before and after you have hotplugged it.

do also sit in vt1 when you plug it in, and watch the messages.

have you updated hal? It is running? Is your device a
mass-storage-device?

Possibly you should file a bug at component "hal"

lør, 02.10.2004 kl. 20.59 skrev Jon Savage:
> On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 14:37:58 -0400, Charles R. Anderson <cra at wpi.edu> wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 07:01:18PM +0100, malcolm wrote:
> > > Since this is my home PC I want anyone to be able to mount usb-mp3
> > > players, DVDs, CDRW etc. I used to do this by just bunging 'users' in
> > > the fstab options. Now something ( udev or whatever )  overwrites it on
> > > every boot and then I get the message 'only root can mount etc etc' -
> > > How do I make it so that everyone and their dog can mount anything.
> > 
> > It is supposed to be plug-and-play... a user logged in locally to the
> > console should just be able to plug something in and have it mount
> > automatically, with icons appearing on the desktop, etc.
> And that was the behaviour I saw when I installed FC3 T2, however it
> appears to have broken since then. No Idea when it broke since I've
> not plugged any USB storage in (until just now) since I tested it
> immediately subsequent to the install. I looked on bugzilla under
> udev,hotplug,hwdata,hwbrowser (did I miss anything?) and don't see
> anything open.
> 
> -- 
> Bests,
> Jon
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