Re: Bug#761815: installation adds entries for USB media to /etc/fstab which confuse udisks
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:38:05PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
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>My personal opinion is that the right thing is to not add entries to
>/etc/fstab for removable devices at all (where "removable" means that
>the device itself can be removed, not just devices with removable
>media): I think there is no guarantee that the entry added to /etc/fstab
>actually matches the right device later. Plus the problems with udisks.
100% agreed.
>> My patch currently only prohibits adding of USB device entries. Should
>> this be extended to floppies and CD-ROMs? What about kfreebsd and hurd?
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>I'm not sure about CD-ROM/floppies or other devices with removable
>media. I also don't know about kFreeBSD or Hurd.
>
>> IMO this should be fixed before the release as it causes unexpected and
>> inconsistent behavior.
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>Agreed. I've personally at least encountered 3 people having problems
>with using USB media under desktop environments (KDE or GNOME) due to
>these entries in /etc/fstab.
I'm thinking the best way to go with this is to simply drop this misc
USB device support altogether from partman-target. Any objections?
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