Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/25/06 08:58 CST: > No. I added it manually when I set up my LFS system.
I've been having HAL do it for quite a while now. One of the main reasons I was using HAL, was for this automation of the fstab file. As root owns this, one would have to get the sysadmin to create an fstab file entry just to plug in a drive. Sure it can be done when the system is built, but then how do you know where a specific device is mounted? CD/DVD/floppies aren't really an issue as their device file is always the same, but USB devices are not. What if you had 4 300GB external USB drives plugged in at once, how would you know one from the other. Old HAL setup allowed you to define by a drive serial number if desired. For example, HAL created these fstab entries on one of my systems (I have 3 USB drives plugged in right now): /dev/hdd /media/cdrecorder1 auto users,exec,noauto,comment=managed 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 auto users,exec,noauto,comment=managed 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy1 auto users,exec,noauto,comment=managed 0 0 /dev/sda1 /media/TRAVELDRIVE vfat users,exec,noauto,comment=managed 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /media/MINI-CRUZER vfat users,exec,noauto,comment=managed 0 0 /dev/sdc1 /media/WDC_Combo fat users,exec,noauto,comment=managed 0 0 I can always tell which is which, and what is mounted by simply looking at a df output or looking in /media. Creating the fstab entries manually creates a situation where you would not know what drive is mounted where. This isn't an argument, it is meant for discussion so we can setup the new HAL/D-BUS as proper as possible. I'm not convinced that we should update HAL/D-BUS before releasing the next version of BLFS. Even if that means we stick at GNOME-2.12.2. Which wouldn't be a terrible thing, 2.12.2 is still ahead of some distros and I'm not sure that anything but Fedora is shipping 2.14.x. Thanks for keeping the discussion going. Perhaps we can get some other comments as well. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.28] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 09:02:01 up 30 days, 20:39, 1 user, load average: 1.58, 0.59, 0.32 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
