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. :-)
Thanks.
mhr
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. :-)
Slightly OT?
Only way it could be more OT is if this were a Mac OS X or Windows forum... ;-)
I suggest, forgoing disk labels...
-Ross
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On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Ross S. W. Walker rwalker@medallion.com wrote:
Slightly OT?
Only way it could be more OT is if this were a Mac OS X or Windows forum... ;-)
You mean "slightly" isn't a synonym for "way?" :-)
I suggest, forgoing disk labels...
I umounted the drive, changed /etc/fstab not to use the label, removed the /dev/disk/by-label symlink and now I get one icon with the name /misc.
That looks right, so I'll go with it. Thanks!
mhr
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
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:36 PM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
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.
I'm not sure I understand this - there are no duplicate entries in fstab, and the /misc volume does not automount during the boot, or didn't the last time I booted the machine.
The problem is that I still have two icons on the desktop for a single mounted disk.
?????
If I want to get rid of the label, how do I do that? 'man e2label' doesn't say how to delete an existing label....
Thanks.
mhr
MHR wrote:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:36 PM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
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.
I'm not sure I understand this - there are no duplicate entries in fstab, and the /misc volume does not automount during the boot, or didn't the last time I booted the machine.
The problem is that I still have two icons on the desktop for a single mounted disk.
?????
If I want to get rid of the label, how do I do that? 'man e2label' doesn't say how to delete an existing label....
tune2fs -L "" /dev/XXX
-Ross
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On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Ross S. W. Walker rwalker@medallion.com wrote:
tune2fs -L "" /dev/XXX
Thank you!
mhr
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 13:52 -0700, MHR wrote:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:36 PM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
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.
I'm not sure I understand this - there are no duplicate entries in fstab, and the /misc volume does not automount during the boot, or didn't the last time I booted the machine.
The entry in fstab will mount automatically unless noauto is specified. With HAL, UDEV et al active on your system, it is safe to assume that one of them is "mounting" the device. At the time X starts, devices that are handled via this facility will be made available to the user of the desktop (and "ownership" is assigned to that user too IIUC). I don't recall seeing noauto in your fstab entry.
Before logging on via X, switch to a vt and type mount. You'll probably see the device already mounted. Then after you log in via X, do "mount" again. I expect you'll see two mounts on the device.
The problem is that I still have two icons on the desktop for a single mounted disk.
AFAIK, that is not a problem except to the "wetware". The system is perfectly happy with it. See "man mount" and look for "bind" to see evidence of this.
I'm not that knowledgeable about the desktop, but I think Gnome has some stuff it starts up that comminucates with HAL or udev to locate removable devices and make them available on the desktop. This goes beyond mount, IIUC. Witness a CD or DVD that is a video or music media. It has no file system, as we understand it, and can't be formally mounted. I *think* that's correct. Those devices should get accessed through the raw device interfaces.
Maybe Gnome has some preferences about this?
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HTH
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