Dylan wrote:

On Sunday 15 February 2004 21:26 pm, John Dillworth wrote:

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Sorry about the response, just learning Linux and Evolution dosn't work exactelly like my old mail client (but it looks alot like it :-) ). Anyway, thanks for the time and education, I put the space in but now I am getting 'can't read superblock'

Can you check the contents of /etc/fstab when each device is plugged and when neither is and tell us what the differences are?

Surely you mean /etc/mtab? /etc/fstab won't change unless you edit it. <snip> -- Vic Ayres

Anders Johansson wrote:

On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 22:32 +0000, Vic Ayres wrote:

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Surely you mean /etc/mtab? /etc/fstab won't change unless you edit it.

SuSE's hotplugging system will dynamically update fstab as devices are inserted and removed

It would be nice if it recognized a device type and always connected it to the same mount point. For example, I have a USB floppy, pen drive and camera. Depending on the order they're connected to the computer, they could wind up on /dev/sda, sdb or sdc. In Red Hat, I used to use devlabel, to create a symbolic link between the mounted device and a dummy mount point, such as /dev/floppy or /dev/pen.

Dylan wrote:

On Sunday 15 February 2004 22:51 pm, James Knott wrote:

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Anders Johansson wrote:

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On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 22:32 +0000, Vic Ayres wrote:

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Surely you mean /etc/mtab? /etc/fstab won't change unless you edit it.

SuSE's hotplugging system will dynamically update fstab as devices are inserted and removed

It would be nice if it recognized a device type and always connected it to the same mount point. For example, I have a USB floppy, pen drive and camera. Depending on the order they're connected to the computer, they could wind up on /dev/sda, sdb or sdc.

It does on my box - my camera is always sda and card reader is always sdb

Dylan

How'd you manage that?

Anders Johansson wrote:

On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 22:32 +0000, Vic Ayres wrote:

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Surely you mean /etc/mtab? /etc/fstab won't change unless you edit it.

SuSE's hotplugging system will dynamically update fstab as devices are inserted and removed

Ouch! I don't think I like that. Very near the start of man fstab it says :- The file fstab contains descriptive information about the various file systems. fstab is only read by programs, and not written; it is the duty of the system administrator to properly create and maintain this file. -- Vic Ayres

On Sunday 15 February 2004 14:19, Vic Ayres wrote:

Anders Johansson wrote:

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On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 22:32 +0000, Vic Ayres wrote:

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Surely you mean /etc/mtab? /etc/fstab won't change unless you edit it.

SuSE's hotplugging system will dynamically update fstab as devices are inserted and removed

Ouch! I don't think I like that. Very near the start of man fstab it says :-

The file fstab contains descriptive information about the various file systems. fstab is only read by programs, and not written; it is the duty of the system administrator to properly create and maintain this file.

-- Vic Ayres

Yes, and through 8.2, the hotplug services are still flakey and not totally reliable, occasionally leaving duplicate and obsolete items in fstab. Further, you can plug in different devices (memory cards, floppy drives, etc) at different times and they show up as the same device, or different devices depending on the order of attachment. Therefore, no automated scripts or processes can rely on finding any device at any given /dev name. This crys out for a different approach. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen