Upstream util-linux introduced support for /etc/fstab.d/*.fstab files. So far these are not used in Fedora. This is the change. The comment above the mnt_tab_parse_fstab function describes how these files are parsed in detail. http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=commitdiff;h=9826a63737086a8c28353de878b4bf3e1d5caa2b This will also require some small changes in Augeas. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org