For those who enter this thread late, I'm continuing to learn Linux in
general, and the nuances of Fedora Core 3 (planning to upgrade to
Fedora 7 real soon now)...
>The fstab entry for my CDROM reads:
>
> /dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto
> pamconsole,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,managed 0 0
>
> So, [in order to mount the zip100 drive] I copied and pasted the
line, then modified to it read:
>
> /dev/sda4 /media/zip100 <remainder unchanged>
***CORRECTION*** remove the 'managed' parameter from the copied CDROM
spec!!! Explanation below.
> My ZIP drive is jumpered to read as device 4. After creating
> /media/zip100, I mounted it from a term window.
*CAUTION* the solution I've arrived at doesn't seem to be a complete
one. I ran into a problem where my specified mountpoint kept GETTING
DELETED every time I ejected the volume.
With a little digging, I found I running afoul of fstab-sync, a daemon
that modifies fstab in response to Hardware Abstract Level events.
fstab-sync SANITIZES fstab of anything that it inserts, or THINKS it
inserts. According to the man on fstab-sync, the 'managed' parameter
of fscontext= is a flag specifically for the daemon, and shouldn't be
added manually. Removing that parameter solved the "disappearing
mountpoint" problem.
So now, I can boot up and log in with no disk in the zipdrive, it will
automount when I insert a disk volume (either msdos or ext2 format).
I still get an error message when I Eject the volume from the GUI, the
system complains that it can't find /dev/sda4. Well, naturally, it
just unmounted it! The eject button works once the volume is
unmounted. In fact, if I press the button immediately before I issue
the Eject command, it DOES eject, as soon as it unmounts. Not
pretty, but I can live with that.
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