[NTLUG:Discuss] Flash Memory Reader on RH8 configuration

[terry]

On Sunday 30 March 2003 15:30, you wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 12:08:05 -0600, terry wrote:
> > I have a USB flash memory card reader that I hooked up and configured
> > last week, and I created a mount point directory, and added an entry in
> > /etc/fstab for it and it worked just fine,  UNTIL, I rebooted yesterday
> > and all that got wiped out, so had to do it all again.  (Mount point, and
> > fstab entry both gone) What causes that?  And how can I stop it?  Or what
> > workaround do I need to use?
> >
> > I see  a file created on what looks to be the date of my first
> > configuration of the device, ( /etc/fstab.REVOKE ), and it contains an
> > entry similar to what I put in there, not exact but similar.
> >
> > cat /etc/fstab.REVOKE
> > /dev/sda1 /mnt/memstick auto default
> >
> > I don't know who created this file and I dono who did.
> > Any clues?
>
> kudzu does some weird stuff with the /etc/fstab file.
>
> I've been surprised the kudzu does a pretty good job of
> hardware detection, but I don't like what it does to
> the /etc/fstab file.
>
> If you remove the ,kudzu entry from the /etc/fstab
> entry I think that it will leave your /etc/fstab file
> alone and you'll be ok.
>
> jack
>
I suspected as much, so I left kudzu off this time.  Only reason I had it in 
there before was that I'd tried to duplicate the setup they had for floppy.  

I even coppied the script from /home/terry/Desktop/Floppy  and customized it 
to work for /mnt/memstick and it works pretty good.  (I left the icon image 
the same, but may change it later if I find one that's more appropriate.)

$ cat /home/terry/Desktop/Memstick
[Desktop Entry]
Dev=/dev/sda1
FSType=auto
Icon=3floppy_mount
MountPoint=/mnt/memstick
Name=Memstick
Type=FSDevice
UnmountIcon=3floppy_unmount
X-KDE-Dynamic-Device=true


By the way, I said before that all my configurations were wiped out, but 
that's not true.  My Memstick icon was left alone, so all was not lost, just 
most.
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