Re: fstab re-writing
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 18:44 +0100, steve downes wrote:
> just fitted a pcmcia sdcard reader to my laptop.
>
> I find the following line in /etc/fstab does what I want:-
>
> /dev/hde1 /home/steve/zaurus vfat rw,uid=1000,gid=100,user,noauto 0 0
>
> but every time I umount & remount it rewrites, deletes the above
> line & relaces it with:-
>
> /dev/hde1 /mnt/sdcard msdos defaults 0 0
>
> which is emphatically not what I want.
>
> Why does this happen & what process is involved? More importantly
> how do I stop it?
The standard answer is "udev and a custom rule". But I also wonder
what is rewriting /etc/fstab.
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