GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 354249
invalid entries in /etc/fstab should be filtered out
Last modified: 2008-09-06 18:55:04 UTC
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-vfs2/+bug/42810 "Hello, I was wondering if it were possible to have gnome-vfs filter out all those /etc/fstab entries which refer to devices being no longer valid. The /etc/fstab is created at install time and entries are populated according to the block devices found on the system during setup, a typical example in this respect is the cd-rom drive. Problem is, if the user later on moves the cd-drive to a different IDE channel, the corresponding /etc/fstab entry is invalidated. Actually this is not a serious issue, because gnome-vfs would get the new device node through HAL, problem is we will end with a "bogus" cd-rom drive showing up in nautilus. Actually, an easy workaround would be removing any reference to cd-rom drives from /etc/fstab altogether, since most desktop apps seem to rely on HAL nowadays: pmount is a valid example in this respect, it will still work even if no fstab entry is provided for the device which is being mounted. On the other hand, some don't: gnomebaker is one of these. Regards, andre"
Could some dev explain the semantics of a drive being marked as user_visible? Because i had such a dead entry in my fstab and the corresponding gnome-vfs drive had this flag set. The same happens to entries that are not valid at boot time (e.g. for usb mass storage devices). Such devices can't be mounted at the moment as they are not available. So why are they flagged as user_visible? This is related to bug #354249.
Sorry for the bugspam. The bug number above should have been #332906.
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