[systemd-devel] advice for fixing systemd206 installation please

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On Monday 05 August 2013 16:15:03 Mantas Mikulėnas wrote:
> Does `findmnt` show the same? Also, is your /etc/mtab a regular file,
> or a symlink to /proc/self/mounts?

thanks
i had overlooked this and this has fixed  the  phantom mount point problem

On Monday 05 August 2013 16:15:03 Mantas Mikulėnas wrote:
> The filesystem is irrelevant, since it is checked at mount time, and
> you mount disks after they show up in /dev.
> 
> Make sure you have USB mass storage drivers enabled (compiled in or
> modules).

I have   usb-mass-storage compilrd in  the kernel

but  it refuses to generate a file in /dev when a usb  'stick'  -any usb-flash 
-memory device  is plugged in.  BUT it  generates a /dev file when  a hard 
disk in an eclosure with a usb interface is plugged in