On Thursday 20 January 2005 11:43, Lukas Ruzicka wrote:
> Anne Wilson napsal(a):
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> >On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 06:51, SnapafunFrank wrote:
> >>I'm trying to get udev working functionally so am revisiting my
> >> previous attempts from scratch to put "my house in order".
> >>
> >>First port of call is the fstab file and within that I believe
> >> I may have some problems.
> >
> >I've never used vim, so I don't know whether it's highlighting a
> > problem or an unrecognised word. I take the simple way of
> > dealing with fstab. I use Mandrake Control Center to set up
> > every line, and don't mess with it after that. In theory it's
> > perfectly easy to hand-edit, but why bother when a space or
> > comma misplaced can make it go wrong? I've never had a problem
> > with any entry that MCC has set up.
>
> But sometimes, especially if you boot up various kernels, the
> fstab created by MCC behaves strangely. I had to edit it per hand
> and then it worked.
At least you're not alone. Some time ago there was a thread about
"the ghost in the machine". It turned out the culprit was
supermount. This devil have plagued us for years now. In 10.1 is
worse than ever, if I may have a say. To me it seems that this
ghost has a will of its own, randomly changing /etc/fstab. For
example my fstab changes in unpredictable ways whenever I insert a
floppy, an USB device like a mp3 player, a scanner or a camera.
More often than not I have to edit fstab by hand in order to get
things right again, but the ghost returns after a short while.
I guess this is the penalty we have to pay for using an otherwise
fine distro.
Kaj Haulrich.
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