Bug 206165 - /usr/sbin/fstab-sync missing from hal package?
Summary: /usr/sbin/fstab-sync missing from hal package?
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: hal
Version: 5.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: John (J5) Palmieri
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Reported: 2006-09-12 16:05 UTC by Aleksandar Milivojevic
Modified: 2013-03-13 04:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-09-12 17:17:39 UTC
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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.
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