I see this change has been made. Unfortunately, with my setup (Sony Clie
PEG-T425 and memory stick seen as /dev/sda1) it's disastrous.

I've seen all sorts of unexpected behaviour including:

i. either of (/mnt/)removable and (/mnt/)hd appearing seemingly randomly
on the Gnome desktop;

ii. the Unmount Volume right-mouse-button item not doing anything on
either of those;

iii. when the device is mounted properly, Nautilus being extremely slow
at updating directory displays therein;

iv. it being unclear when the device is read-write or read-only (I think
this is a problem with the Clie rather than with Linux, as it's not 100
per cent reliable even from the command line; however, it's easier to
sort out a problem from the command line than from a GUI);

v. interactions with scripts I've already written to do various things
with the Memory Stick so that these work unpredictably rather than
predictably;

vi. random absolute lockups, so that even Ctrl-Alt-Del or Ctrl-Alt-F<x>
don't work.

Given all this I think supermounting is so dangerous it has to go; this
line

none /mnt/removable supermount
dev=/dev/sda1,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

must be banished from /etc/fstab!

Alastair


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