On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 11:06 -0700, MHR wrote:
I'm running FC8 with Gnome 2.20.0 at work and I have this interesting situation.
I have two disks on the system that are both configured to be mounted in /etc/fstab, but I'm seeing two things I believe are strange.
One is that the second drive is not getting mounted at boot time.
The other is that I see two icons for the disk on my desktop - one with the mount point of the drive, the other with the labvel, and they both refer to the same drive (but, e.g., if I use one icon to umount the drive, the other icon does not go away - this is secondary).
Suggestions welcome. Here is my /etc/fstab:
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 LABEL=/misc /misc ext3 defaults 1 2
The drive that is misbehaving is /misc.
This is (more or less) my first experience with FC, so have mercy. :-)
I see that you have solved. If for some reason you wish to keep both definitions (there may be reasons), just add "noauto" (no quotes) to one or both of the entries. This might be useful when you want to mount a different volume, e.g. as a "temp" mount for backup or copy purposes. This is handy when you have, e.g., a couple identical looking external usb drives that are used for different purposes on multiple machines.
With "label" and "noauto", it keeps me from accidentally mounting the wrong one. No, external labels won't do - purposes change frequently.
Thanks.
mhr
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HTH