Interaction multiple distro installs, fstab-sync, and konqueror

[Andrey Borzenkov]

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On Monday 09 January 2006 07:09, Enrique Perez-Terron wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In the newdgroup comp.os.linux.misc there was recently a thread started
> by a relatively newbie, who had installed Mandrivia/Mandrake, then Suse
> in a different partiton.  Back in Mandrake he browsed the devices in
> Konqueror and clicked on /dev/hda13, which he knew contained the suse
> root partition.  Konqueror mounted the partition over /.  Guess what
> more happened.  Hint: X has a unix-domain socket in /tmp/.X11-unix.
>
> He had noticed that the new partitions had appeared automatically in
> /etc/fstab in the Mandrake partition.  He did not remember many details.
> The new partition had "/" as the mount point.  He soon after wiped the
> partitions and started over with just Suse, so I cannot repeat or
> confirm any details.
>

it has likely nothing to do with HAL, HAL normally does not automount 
non-removable hard drives.

It is hard to tell without any detail but I would blame either Mandriva 
installer (for putting in fstab wrong mount point) or Konqueror guessing by 
this description.

- -andrey
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