On December 19, 2002 10:00 am, Anne Wilson wrote: <snip> > I find that very odd. I wondered at first if it was because you were using > 'auto' mounting, not supermount, as I do. But then I realised that my > LS120 drive is set up to mount the way you do, and my mtab has the > following line: > > /dev/sda /mnt/LS120 vfat > rw,noexec,sync,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 > > which obviously is preparing it for mounting from the icon. > > I'm not sure just what is happening here. As I undertand it you can, from > a desktop icon, mount and unmount cdrom and cd-rw without problems, yet > mtab doesn't recognise their existance. > > Any help, anyone? > > Anne
I don't think that's unusual at all Anne and John. The mtab file is the 'mount table' (dynamic)as opposed to fstab; 'file system table' (static) which contains instructions to the kernel for handling these devices including what file systems to expect there as well as locations and permissions. Mtab shouldn't show anything unless the device is mounted I believe. When you read it with no devices mounted there won't be any there, ya think? Try again with media in the drive maybe. You know, mount a disk? You couldn't tell I'm guessing (maybe a logical guess but...) could you? :-) Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives. -- Roy G. Blount, Jr.
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