On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 17:32 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 16:46 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > > I wonder if anyone can duplicate the problem by creating a partition > > > and having it mounted in fstab by volume label and see if it appears > > > twice. > > > > Not quite the same, but I've a USB drive that I plugged in after > > removing "noauto" from the fstab entry. > > > > $ grep 4 /etc/fstab > > LABEL=BkUp_4_5 /media/sdc1 ext2 defaults,noatime 0 0 > > Hmmm, and if the mount point were outside of /media? My suspicion is it won't matter. But Give me a couple and I'll try this and the other suggestions below. > > Got a nice little message telling me (in Gnome desktop) that I wasn't > > priveleged to mount it. That's as I would expect since I was already > > logged in at my desktop. Mount showed it mounted. > > > > $ mount > > /dev/sdc1 on /media/sdc1 type ext2 (rw,noatime) > > Is that fixed or removable media? It is an external. Got 2 at a deal from Tosh because I own one of their nice 17" Satellites. > > > Now I'll reboot and see what happens. > > > > Rebooted. Prior to entering "telinit 5", did a "mount" and it was > > mounted. After logging onto graphical desktop, one icon on > > the desktop. > > As expected. > > > > I'm led back to the conclusion that there is some oddity about the > > device definitions on Mark's problematic unit. > > There could be, could you give it a try with another mount point > outside of /media and with a fixed disk if it isn't already? Will do. Give me a couple and I'll post again. > > -Ross > <snip sig stuff> -- Bill