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Old 06-29-2004, 08:18 AM   #1
laszlo
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Angry Who is editing my fstab???!!!


Hi,

I started to use a USB thumbdrive on a box with RH9. I can mount it with
Code:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash
and it works. I added the line:
Code:
/dev/sda1   /mnt/flash    auto    noauto,users,kudzu 0 0
to my /etc/fstab. Everything is OK until I disconnect and reconnect the drive. At the moment when the drive is connected, the mount point (/mnt/flash) disappear together with the line I added to fstab.

What the hell is going on here??? this is not windoze!!!

If anyone could give me a clue ... so I can stay more or less sane ...

Thanks

laszlo
 
Old 06-29-2004, 08:37 AM   #2
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Is there a automounter / autofs or simmilar at work ? Or something that detects new hardware ?
 
Old 06-29-2004, 11:10 AM   #3
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Thanks for the idea, but no autofs, no automount. It is really weird.
 
Old 06-29-2004, 12:29 PM   #4
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I suppose you already have created a directory /mnt/flash manually right??? try using fs type as vfat instead of auto.

code:/dev/sda1 /mnt/flash vfat noauto,users,kudzu 0 0
 
Old 06-29-2004, 03:52 PM   #5
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Delete the kudzu option from fstab.
 
Old 06-30-2004, 05:37 AM   #6
laszlo
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Cool

I think I've got the culprit: hotplug. It is a bunch of scripts in /etc/hotplug, activated by the chain: /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug -> /sbin/hotplug -> /etc/hotplug/*

Thanks for the ideas.

Cheers

laszlo
 
  


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