Bug 117151

Summary:	New hard disks should be integrated automatically
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Michael Stather <kontakt>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Andreas Jaeger <aj>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	RC 1
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Michael Stather 2005-09-15 00:02:23 UTC

This is IMHO a very important feature not found in current versions.
If a new harddisk/partition is found a new entry in the fstab should be made
automatically.
I suggest the following approach for supporting removable harddisks
If a disk/partition is removed from the system the entry in the fstab should
only be commented automatically. And before adding a new entry it should be
checked whether there is a commented entry which is then uncommented. So you
don´t lose the mountpoint/settings with removable drives.

Comment 1 Thomas Fehr 2005-09-15 08:51:29 UTC

Removable media are handled by hal/hotplug and mounted below /media
automatically. I for myself would not want my fstab be cluttered with
partitions on every USB-stick or -disk I ever attached to the system.

If this is really wanted it should be integrated into hal/hotplug since
these have a daemon running that looks for attachment and removal of disks
anyway. Currently yast2-storage simply does not know about e disk being
attached or removed.

Anyway this is something to be decided by project management.

Comment 2 Michael Stather 2005-09-15 10:35:35 UTC

It´s IMHO just annoying that I´ve to edit the fstab by hand if I repartition my
hard disk or add another one, while the YaST2 setup program can setup one for me
during installation.

Comment 3 Thomas Fehr 2005-09-15 10:38:36 UTC

If you provide a mount point for a partition in YaST2 it will of course
add an entry for that partition to /etc/fstab.

Comment 4 Heiko Heerlein 2005-10-25 04:49:08 UTC

I disabled "automount during startup" for my win-partition when installing. As a result no fstab entry was generated - I had to do it by hand later...

Comment 5 Heiko Heerlein 2005-10-26 04:40:45 UTC

I installed the whole system yesterday and it seems that the installation-YaST "forgets" all defaults when you entering the the experts partitioning (you got to setup all)...

Comment 6 Andreas Jaeger 2006-01-04 10:16:35 UTC

I agree with Thomas, we will not make a change.