On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:08:46AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > no, i don't think i should need to do that. the *old* system > didn't have an entry in /etc fstab for this. what i'm puzzled by is > that, if the automounter isn't running, there's *no* /mnt directory on > this system.
It is udev. It takes partition label as location. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch03.en.html#_the_udev_system > i always thought that /mnt should exist as a normal (but > empty) directory. i'm *guessing* that what i need to do is stop the > automounter, then "mkdir /mnt", then restart the automounter. I remember we had automounter damon in old days. We have udev hook scripts these days. > p.s. i'm sure i can simplify this with udev, but i'm trying to simply > reproduce what was on the old system for now. You mean "on an old lenny system"? it is new enough. Even sarge is new enough for udev. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
