[CentOS] Mount floppy on startup?

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Fri Aug 26 21:53:43 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 13:22 -0600, Ash Christopher wrote:
> In reality, it is because I am anal.
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ok - not a bad concept - just a bad characterization
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> 
> I changed to CentOS from Gentoo, and with Gentoo, there was no /media
> directory. I had drives mounted to /media/music , /media/television, and
> so on.
> 
> So, when I changed to CentOS, by habit I wanted the same structure.
> 
> Now when connecting to my samba share that connects to the /media
> directory, I get two other directories; floppy and lost+found.
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can't automount a device if you don't have a mount point.

the lost+found is obviously because you have put /media on its own
partition and each partition will have one.
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> 
> I guess it isn't a big deal, but it definitely bothers me. There has to
> be a reason that that dir and fstab line are being added.
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man fstab-sync
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> 
> The fact that I don't know how it works bothers me more than having
> those two directories  =).
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hal

rpm -ql hal

Craig




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