Hi,

I have an usb flash disk (key-like) and suse 9.1.
On suse 9.0 I manually edited /etc/fstab file as auto...user,rw,sync... and had no problem, I just had to manually mount the device. fine

With suse 9.1 which uses submount things are different. Suse detects usb storage device, makes an entry in /etc/mtab! not /etc/fstab (as in 9.0) with some long name similar to /media/usb-storage0043204320432.pp10.

mount says tthat /dev/sda1 is mounted in that folder, however unmounting is not possible, and adding entry in /etc/fstab doesn't help, suse automatically overrides this by setting entry in /etc/mtab and doesn't care what says in /etc/fstab.

I understand that subfs is no problem with cd drives, or perhaps even floppies.
But is it possible that not unmounting drive would result in data loss (as is often the case with usb flash drives without unmounting/ejecting them)?

Thanks.