Re: fstab automatically being rescanned by ?

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Nicolas George wrote:
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> songbird (12021-03-28):
>>   something is causing /etc/fstab to be rescanned when i change
>> the file and i don't want that ever to happen unless i actually
>> run the mount command myself.  how can i turn this off?
>>=20
>>   MATE desktop, debian testing, up to date.
>>=20
>>   trying to figure out which part is causing this to happen.
>>=20
>>   any ideas?  googling isn't giving me useful results and
>> the man pages aren't either.  :(
>
> Have you tested editing fstab from the console while no desktop
> environment is running?

  good idea, i'll give it a try sometime.  thanks.


  songbird