Re: mounting local partitions

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

MArk Finlay <sisob eircom net> writes:

> 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

Yes, but that's the typical way a floppy looks in /etc/fstab. 
(On Red Hat Linux, it will show up as 'owner', but that's a recent improvement)

/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 

On most Linux systems would look like:

/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,user 0 0 

Regards,
                                        Owen