Alberto Monteiro wrote:

> (b) map the _logical_ partition to it by inserting a line
> in /etc/fstab:

>  /dev/hdb5  /windows2   vfat    defaults,uid=albmont 0 0

I just learned another wrinkle to editing fstabs the other day,
while trying to get a Linux machine set up at work. On newer
Linux distros (Redhat Fedora Core 3, in my case), they've added
a new hardware auto-detect daemon called HAL. (Insert your own
2001 jokes here... ;-) ) It will automatically change your fstab
when it detects a new USB or internal disk (or removal of a
disk), and when it does, it deletes or changes your hand-written
fstab entries. There are ways to keep it from doing that, but I
didn't figure it out in the few minutes I spent looking at it.
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