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? Drat! Changed that one to "noauto". I'll have to "ribit" and try that one again. > > > 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? > > > 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? ]$ grep OLDh /etc/fstab # /dev/sda7 /mnt/OLDhardtolove ext2 noauto 0 0 LABEL=OLDhardtolove /mnt/OLDhardtolove ext2 defaults,ro 0 0 $ mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/sdb1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/sda7 on /mnt/OLDhardtolove type ext2 (ro) No icon on the desktop. BTW. On the previous test, I could not umount the device from the desktop. That would be because it was mounted prior to GUI instantiation and so the GUI user was not the "owner" I guess. > > -Ross > <snip> -- Bill