Bugzilla – Bug 117151
New hard disks should be integrated automatically
Last modified: 2006-01-04 10:16:35 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.
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.
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.
If you provide a mount point for a partition in YaST2 it will of course add an entry for that partition to /etc/fstab.
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...
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)...
I agree with Thomas, we will not make a change.