/media/disk-n disaster: /etc/fstab ignored, all filesystems mounted

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 06:40:51AM -0800, John Reiser wrote:
> FC5test1 recently began mounting all fixed-disk filesystems
> as /media/disk, /media/disk-1, /media/disk-2, ... when they
> are not listed already in /etc/fstab as being mounted otherwise.

Well, see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133584 and
discussions there.  One would hope that we will not see that nasty
bug again, wouldn't we?  Unfortunately it is back.  See also
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177177
This is actually a basic security issue and it has also other ugly
ramifications.

There is autofs if you want such automatic mounts for partitions
on fixed disks and it does much better job with that.

To make things more "interesting" on my test system (x86_64)
removable media do not mount at all.

   Michal