question re list

[kwhiskers]

On 26/10/05, akonstam at trinity.edu <akonstam at trinity.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:33:39PM -0600, kwhiskers wrote:
> > On 25/10/05, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 19:36 -0600, kwhiskers wrote:
> > > > I was wondering about the noauto option. I read the documentation,
> but
> > > > got the impression this refers to automounting at boot. My situation
> > > > is that this device will never be connected at boot, but only
> > > > connected after the system has already booted up and disconnected
> well
> > > > before the system ever shuts down. I will try.
> > >
> > > Since your message doesn't say anything about how you're using noauto,
> I
> > > can only give a general reply:
> > >
> > > In the /etc/fstab file using a "noauto" option means that it won't be
> > > automatically mounted as the computer boots up.
> > >
> > > Without trying out other options, too, you'd need to be root to
> manually
> > > mount such an entry. Throwing in "user" will allow a user to mount
> > > something as their own. Using "users", instead, will allow anybody to
> > > mount and dismount it. See the mount and fstab man pages.
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> >
> > I have noauto in this context: pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed
> >
> > I simply copied it from the cdrecorder, cdrom and floppy lines, as they
> have
> > the same and also all appear under /media. Not very intelligent, but I
> > wasn't sure what else to put there, since the 'managed' threw me and I
> was
> > stumped when lines kept disappearing and then reappearing from fstab. I
> do
> > get that now, but the ones that reappear aren't the ones that
> disappeared, I
> > have noticed, so the system must have some overrides stored somewhere
> that
> > are not the same as the ones I had chosen.
> >
> > In any case, I did try auto, but with the other options, as above, but
> when
> > I plugged the camera in, what I had put into fstab simply disappeared
> and
> > the old line with noauto reappeared.
> >
> > This is not a huge problem, as I said, now that I have spent so much
> time on
> > it, and have seen that firstly, nobody has any answers, and secondly,
> all
> > the work I have done and suggestions, both here and on other websites,
> have
> > had me just going in circles and getting nowhere.
> >
> > I can mount manually, which is fine, I guess. I just thought that cds
> mount
> > themselves when inserted, so why not a camera. I am using the same fstab
> > option that cds have, and they work there.
> With my camera which uses a usb connection it is automatically mounted
> . Do not usb devices automount on your machine? auto-mounting that is
> done to a CD is not the same as auto in your fstab but is handled by
> the automounter. Look at man automount
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Yes, I have looked at the documentation. automount is for using autofs,
which I am not using. What I need is to get HAL to mount, that is the real
source of the problem, of this I am sure.
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