How to use fstab-sync?

[Thomas Gufler]

Am Mittwoch 18 August 2004 17:06 schrieb John (J5) Palmieri:
> On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 08:27, Kristof Vansant wrote:
> > Can it also be used to add my cdrom and dvd drive to fstab if they
> > aren't configured their yet? I use slackware so no kudzu or any other
> > distro specific detection tools :)
>
> Yes, it detects any mass storage device.  In fact it should only put
> your cdrom or dvd drive in when you have media in the drive.

Are you sure? At least for me fstab-sync adds an entry for the CD/DVD-Drive 
also when there is no disk in the drive. 

Thomas 

>
> --
> J5
>
> > On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 08:02, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 09:51 +0200, Thomas Gufler wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I want HAL to update my /etc/fstab whenever I pluggin an usbstick,
> > > > digital camera,...
> > > > I saw that HAL installed a fstab-sync file in my /usr/sbin directory,
> > > > however I haven't a clue how to use it. Is there any documentation
> > > > available on how to use it or can someone explain?
> > >
> > > You can symlink it into /etc/hal/device.d then it will be called
> > > asynchronously by the hal daemon whenever necessary.
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > > David
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