Does autofs work reliably with urpmi and removable media?
It didn't for me in 8.2. I did urpmi.removemedia for the 8.2 discs,
removed the cdrom mount point in fstab then urpmi.addmedia for each disc
(/misc/cd), but it would still configure for /mnt/cdrom. I could only
install packages by
I don't know if it has been discussed here, but since there are so many
problems with supermount, why to not use an alternative ? Like autofs ?
Is there any technical reason to stick to supermount ?
Eric
doesn't bother me, although thats just my
case.
-Robert
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Subject: [Cooker] supermount or alternate fs mounter ?
I
Robert Denier wrote:
You may want to check this but I think
supermount -i disable
will magically change fstab to get rid of supermount options. (Remember if
you mess up fstab your machine may not boot.)
Clearly you now have to mount everything by hand, but considering I use a cd
at most
29, 2002 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] supermount or alternate fs mounter ?
Robert Denier wrote:
You may want to check this but I think
supermount -i disable
will magically change fstab to get rid of supermount options. (Remember
if
you mess up fstab your machine may not boot
Alan Hughes wrote:
The problem is that AFAIK other auto mounters are user-space applications
that work by periodically checking to see if a mount point is no longer
used, and if so then unmounting it. Typically this check occurs at 30 second
intervals (although I understand that most allow you
