Re: Better (windows) partition interaction

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 17:36 +0100, Christian Neumair wrote:
> Today I had to poke around with /etc/fstab on my brother's computer to
> get his windows partitions mounted with the "user" attribute. This is
> just a no-no for the mass market. The reality is that according to
> google many users dual-boot and encounter this issue, even if some
> distro installers take care of adding fstab entries along the line, this
> won't work after repartitioning. In short: Doing partition detection
> statically sucks for home computers.
> 
> How feasible is it to add code to make extra partitions that are not in
> the fstab user-mountable, probably through hal, and expose them in
> "computer:///"?

This is better asked on the hal list.

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