Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-multimedia (48 mails)

[Paul Howie <paulhowie@xxxxxxxxx>]

put a # symbol in front of the line


On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 00:46:07 -0800, Matthew Dunaway
<fert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> How would I comment out a line inetc/fstab?
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> John Lamb wrote:
> 
> > Matthew Dunaway wrote:
> >
> >> OK, we might be getting somewhere. On my desktop, I have an icon for
> >> the MuVo. It has a little green arrow on it and it says it is
> >> mounted. :-))
> >> When Iclicked on it to open it, I got the following message:
> >>
> >> could not enter folder
> >> /media/usb-storage-odd-CreativeTech-NOMADMuVo:0:0:0p1
> >>
> >> any ideas???
> >
> >
> > If the line in /etc/fstab identifying the muvo is something like:
> >
> > /dev/sda1     /media/muvo      auto     noauto,user,exec,sync 0 0
> >
> > then right-click the muvo icon and select properties. Under the device
> > tag, select /dev/sda1 and it should list the mount point correctly, in
> > my case as /media/muvo.
> >
> > This is the traditional approach to mounting devices in GNU/Linux. It
> > has the advantage of being fairly robust. The disadvantage is that you
> > couldn't plug in a device without first telling the OS what it was,
> > hence 'hotplug' (correctly 'plug and play').
> >
> > IIRC, under SuSE 8.2, if you plugged in a USB memory stick, the USB
> > hotplug system would put an entry in /etc/fstab for you, something
> > like /media/usb-storage-odd-CreativeTech-NOMADMuVo:0:0:0p1. This isn't
> > happening to me now and doesn't matter to me. I don't have any other
> > USB devices that could use /dev/sda* and I want to mount the device
> > with the sync option.
> >
> > I haven't used suseplugger (the 'hardware' icon) much; so I don't know
> > what it should do. It doesn't list the MuVo for me. If you find a MuVo
> > listed, it may be that hotplugging is trying to mount the device
> > automatically. In that case, you could try commenting out the line for
> > /dev/sda1 in /etc/fstab and see what happens. Probably you will find
> > the device under the /media subdirectory. OTOH, leaving a line for
> > /dev/sda1 in /etc/fstab should not be a problem.
> >
> > I guess this is an issue that will get sorted out in the next year or
> > so. IMHO it's not an easy issue because there's no one right way to
> > solve it. I think some devices are automatically detected others not.
> > Some devices can be hotplugged, others not; some devices should be
> > automounted, others not; some devices should be mounted 'sync', others
> > not. Trying to get one system that works for everything is tough.
> >
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