I'm running FC8 with Gnome 2.20.0 at work and I have this interesting situation. I have two disks on the system that are both configured to be mounted in /etc/fstab, but I'm seeing two things I believe are strange. One is that the second drive is not getting mounted at boot time. The other is that I see two icons for the disk on my desktop - one with the mount point of the drive, the other with the labvel, and they both refer to the same drive (but, e.g., if I use one icon to umount the drive, the other icon does not go away - this is secondary). Suggestions welcome. Here is my /etc/fstab: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 LABEL=/misc /misc ext3 defaults 1 2 The drive that is misbehaving is /misc. This is (more or less) my first experience with FC, so have mercy. :-) Thanks. mhr
MHR wrote:> > I'm running FC8 with Gnome 2.20.0 at work and I have this > interesting situation. > > I have two disks on the system that are both configured to be mounted > in /etc/fstab, but I'm seeing two things I believe are strange. > > One is that the second drive is not getting mounted at boot time. > > The other is that I see two icons for the disk on my desktop - one > with the mount point of the drive, the other with the labvel, and they > both refer to the same drive (but, e.g., if I use one icon to umount > the drive, the other icon does not go away - this is secondary). > > Suggestions welcome. Here is my /etc/fstab: > > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 > LABEL=/misc /misc ext3 defaults 1 2 > > The drive that is misbehaving is /misc. > > This is (more or less) my first experience with FC, so have > mercy. :-)Slightly OT? Only way it could be more OT is if this were a Mac OS X or Windows forum... ;-) I suggest, forgoing disk labels... -Ross ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 11:06 -0700, MHR wrote:> I'm running FC8 with Gnome 2.20.0 at work and I have this interesting situation. > > I have two disks on the system that are both configured to be mounted > in /etc/fstab, but I'm seeing two things I believe are strange. > > One is that the second drive is not getting mounted at boot time. > > The other is that I see two icons for the disk on my desktop - one > with the mount point of the drive, the other with the labvel, and they > both refer to the same drive (but, e.g., if I use one icon to umount > the drive, the other icon does not go away - this is secondary). > > Suggestions welcome. Here is my /etc/fstab: > > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 > LABEL=/misc /misc ext3 defaults 1 2 > > The drive that is misbehaving is /misc. > > This is (more or less) my first experience with FC, so have mercy. :-)I see that you have solved. If for some reason you wish to keep both definitions (there may be reasons), just add "noauto" (no quotes) to one or both of the entries. This might be useful when you want to mount a different volume, e.g. as a "temp" mount for backup or copy purposes. This is handy when you have, e.g., a couple identical looking external usb drives that are used for different purposes on multiple machines. With "label" and "noauto", it keeps me from accidentally mounting the wrong one. No, external labels won't do - purposes change frequently.> > Thanks. > > mhr > <snip>HTH -- Bill
Boot and root should be ok, but misc is probably causing problems with file managers querying fstab and hal. -Ross ----- Original Message ----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org <centos-bounces at centos.org> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Sent: Mon Apr 28 18:30:00 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker at medallion.com> wrote:> > tune2fs -L "" /dev/XXX >Thank you! mhr _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080428/21399319/attachment-0001.html>
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker at medallion.com> wrote:> > Boot and root should be ok, but misc is probably causing problems with file > managers querying fstab and hal. > > -Ross >Must be something like that - if I su and umount it, both icons go away. Then I 'mount -a' and only one comes back. But if I log out and log back in, they both come back. Must a new "feature" of gnome 2.20.0.... mhr