Re: mp3 Player

How would I comment out a line inetc/fstab?

John Lamb wrote:

> Matthew Dunaway wrote:
>
>> OK, we might be getting somewhere. On my desktop, I have an icon for 
>> the MuVo. It has a little green arrow on it and it says it is 
>> mounted. :-))
>> When Iclicked on it to open it, I got the following message:
>>
>> could not enter folder 
>> /media/usb-storage-odd-CreativeTech-NOMADMuVo:0:0:0p1
>>
>> any ideas???
>
>
> If the line in /etc/fstab identifying the muvo is something like:
>
> /dev/sda1     /media/muvo      auto     noauto,user,exec,sync 0 0
>
> then right-click the muvo icon and select properties. Under the device 
> tag, select /dev/sda1 and it should list the mount point correctly, in 
> my case as /media/muvo.
>
> This is the traditional approach to mounting devices in GNU/Linux. It 
> has the advantage of being fairly robust. The disadvantage is that you 
> couldn't plug in a device without first telling the OS what it was, 
> hence 'hotplug' (correctly 'plug and play').
>
> IIRC, under SuSE 8.2, if you plugged in a USB memory stick, the USB 
> hotplug system would put an entry in /etc/fstab for you, something 
> like /media/usb-storage-odd-CreativeTech-NOMADMuVo:0:0:0p1. This isn't 
> happening to me now and doesn't matter to me. I don't have any other 
> USB devices that could use /dev/sda* and I want to mount the device 
> with the sync option.
>
> I haven't used suseplugger (the 'hardware' icon) much; so I don't know 
> what it should do. It doesn't list the MuVo for me. If you find a MuVo 
> listed, it may be that hotplugging is trying to mount the device 
> automatically. In that case, you could try commenting out the line for 
> /dev/sda1 in /etc/fstab and see what happens. Probably you will find 
> the device under the /media subdirectory. OTOH, leaving a line for 
> /dev/sda1 in /etc/fstab should not be a problem.
>
> I guess this is an issue that will get sorted out in the next year or 
> so. IMHO it's not an easy issue because there's no one right way to 
> solve it. I think some devices are automatically detected others not. 
> Some devices can be hotplugged, others not; some devices should be 
> automounted, others not; some devices should be mounted 'sync', others 
> not. Trying to get one system that works for everything is tough.
>