Automutating fstab plugging USB device 4501

Matt -- *Thank you!* This is the sort of answer I was hoping for! (:-))

I figured... (:--) I gather that this 'kudzu' thing (which *is* running) is some sort of automounter (but again, it seems to be very hard to locate much info about it). I can't see that I need it either, so I'll try turning it off. buttuming that that doesn't affect the actual hotplugging of USB. Heh. I guess you could be right (:--) One of the options that appears in the magically created line *is* 'kudzu'. Unfortunately that option desn't appear anywhere in the man pages either! To satisfy everyone, here is the line that gets created:

dev-sda4 mnt-zip100.0 auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

Yeah -- sorry. I couldn't recall off the top of my head (and the machine wasn't handy at the time) It's 7.1.

And yeah, I realize the obsoleteness, but I like to stick with what works for me. And I really doubt this is a misfeature restricted to that edition!

I actually noted that, too, but my machine has NO docs on updfstab -- and in factetc-updfstab.conf doesn't exist -- so I didn't pursue that. I guess that would be one advantage of upgrading -- I'd get some missing man pages...! I scoured them as well as I could without finding anything.

Thanks, but don't bother. I'll try turning off kudzu and see how things work. Good point... (:--)

I'm not sure how hotplug and kudzu are related. I'll turn off kudzu first, anyway. I can't see that I need any kind of automount *except* perhaps for USB; if I start using memory sticks, it'd be nice if they appeared automatically. But in any case, the current setup doesn't automount the ZIP disc itself -- I still had to go root and do that.

Thanks again. -- Pete --

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