Procedure on mounting USB/hotplug devices

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Aug 7 02:18:08 UTC 2007


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.

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