Re: mounting local partitions

[MArk Finlay <sisob eircom net>]

On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 22:03, Owen Taylor wrote:
> MArk Finlay <sisob eircom net> writes:
> 
> > Simple question:
> > 
> > Does anyone actually use nautilus to mount user mountable partitions on
> > local hard drives? 
> > 
> > Is it really a useful feature to have?
> > 
> > I never use it and and find it hard to imagine a use for it. It makes
> > sense on BeOS when you are running as root and nothing is mounted by
> > default, but not really on linux. To me it just complicates nautilus'
> > interaction with 'real' removable media.
> 
> Are you sure you aren't seeing the functionality there to handle 
> floppies?  (You can't do of auto-mounting of floppies, because
> there is no reasonable media detection for PC floppy hardware)


no, i'm talking about when you specify the user option for a partition
in /etc/fstab


thanks

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