On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:36 PM, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at 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