Hi,

Does anyone know how does one stop Linux from changing the fstab? I have set the it to mount sda1

However everytime I reboot 'something' will add two more stuff: removable2 and HD.

Here's my fstab:

/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

/dev/sda1 /mnt/removable vfat user,noauto,umask=0 0 0


none /mnt/hd supermount
dev=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0
none /mnt/removable2 supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0

I don't want those two: HD and removable2 to be listed in the fstab.

It's kudzu that's doing it. Usually when you manually create an entry for the device it won't add a second, so not exactly sure what the other two are. Which one is the /dev/sda1 link pointing to?

sda1 is pointing to removable, a USB flash card reader.

While, hd, is not pointing to anything, I have no idea what is that. It was aoutomatically created when I install mandrake,

I do not know if you can disable kudzu in Mandrake. I'll search the internet. Yep, its a pain to edit fstab if you do not want a particular device automatically mounted at boot. I think just disabling supermount might work.

how do you disable supermount? Since the device is added immediately when system reboots.

In addition how do I disable kudzu?

Hmm....after I check it out I think I don't have kudzu in my system, because I ran Drakxservices and see no kudzu entry in there....

Anyone know what's causing my fstab to change itself?

In Mandrake you disable both in the Mandrake Control Center (KDE -> System -> Configuration -> Configure your computer.

I see no supermount nor kudzu when I accessed the System page in Mandrake control panel. Anyone know how to stop Linux from touching my fstab?

If you look in the man pages, logging in as su or root and typing "supermount disable" will disable supermount. For kudzu, I can not find it and its not on my CDs. It could be a problem with devfsd. You can try disabling devfs but you may have problems getting device nodes in /dev. If you do not want to disable devfs, you can comment lines in "/etc/devfs/conf.d/dynamic.conf" that has ".*/part.*". I do not know if it will work but it does not hurt to try it.

ok, I managed to solve this problem now. I comment out the parts in dynamic.conf like Electro said, as well as disabling harddrake and hotlug. Mounting process should be manual now.

I would like enable the supermount for my system how do i do that.
i have my own driver . what modifications should in the driver as well as /etc/fstab to allow my devce be mounted when i first access it .

this is a crucial problem for what i am facing .

thanks linux world for such a help full community,

mukund jampala.

jbmukund, have a look at l32 first post. It would be something:

none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0

The /dev/hdc is an example but it may not be your cdrom or the device that you want supermount to automatically mount.