Bug 206165

Summary:	/usr/sbin/fstab-sync missing from hal package?
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex>
Component:	hal	Assignee:	John (J5) Palmieri <johnp>
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Version:	5.0	CC:	jkeck
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Description Aleksandar Milivojevic 2006-09-12 16:05:19 UTC

Description of problem:
I've just noticed that /usr/sbin/fstab-sync is no longer part of hal package. 
Hence, /etc/fstab is not automatically updated for devices such as CDROMs and
floppy drives, and no mount points under /media are created.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
hal-0.5.7.1-2.fc6

How reproducible:
Always

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Comment 1 John (J5) Palmieri 2006-09-12 17:17:39 UTC

We don't update fstab as it was not really the correct solution.  Instead we now
use gnome-mount which uses hal's mounting facilities.

Comment 2 Aleksandar Milivojevic 2006-09-12 18:21:57 UTC

Hm, OK, gnome-mount would be for desktop systems.  How about text-only systems?

Comment 3 John (J5) Palmieri 2006-09-12 18:36:49 UTC

gnome-mount works perfectly fine for text based systems.  It might have a
dependency on gconf but that is about it.  All gnome mount does is call into a
D-Bus service provided by HAL so one could write a quick script using dbus-send.
You can also fallback to adding an entry into fstab.