Re: /mnt created at boot?

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@peakpeak.com>]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 01:16:45PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote:
> On Monday 23 February 2004 11:20 pm, Paul E Condon wrote:
> >On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:03:53PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote:
> >> I'm working on a system where upon boot the /mnt directory is created and
> >> quite a few subdirs underneath as well (floppy,cdrom,cdrom1,etc). Is this
> >> type of behavior part of autofs?  I'm trying to turn it off, along with
> >> having /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom1 erased with each reboot...
> >>
> >> This is a mepis-install, dist-upgraded to sid.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Jeff
> >
> >Can you explain why you want this? 
> 
> I don't want this :)
> 
> This is an install from a Mepis Linux CD. Mepis is a Debian-based live CD 
> distro and it's quite nice, but some of the behavior is weird (to me) and I'm 
> trying to tame it back to the 'normal' sid situation I'm used to.
> 
> What's happening here is that it creates mount points (cd,cd1,floppy,and many 
> more) under /mnt. I don't use /mnt. When I rm -rf /mnt, upon reboot they are 
> re-created. Not that that harms anything, but it's an irritant. I removed 
> autofs to no avail. I'm still digging through init scripts. 
> 
> Additionally, entries I create in dev (cdrom,cdrom1,and dvd) are erased when 
> the box is rebooted. I don't find a /dev/.devfsd file, nor does mount report 
> devfs. 
> 

Look for a script that is run at boot time and that does the things you don't 
want. Examine it carefully before you delete the steps that you don't want. 
Those steps may be essential to the Mepis way of doing things. If they are,
you need to implement a replacement way prior to deleting the Mepis way.

Don't know Mepis, so I can't guess just how hard it will be. Have you tried
plain vanilla sid, or sarge, or woody? You may be embarking on eliminating
just the features that make Mepis quite nice.

Personally, I run Sarge and think it's quite nice. And I get 100% support from
this list with no guessing by advice givers as to what I'm running. 

HTH

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Paul E Condon           
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