Re: [tlug] Trouble with external USB hard disk: /etc/fstab was mucked; simply and don't fight defaults

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On 2008-10-22 13:11 +0900 (Wed), Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Yikes!  (K)ubuntu mounts things without a word from root?  As Linus
> would say, f*ck me!

The gnome volume manager does, if set up to do so, and you run it. It's
your choice. It seems no worse to me than configuring amd to do the same
thing.

> My guess is that the installer temporarily identified something as
> /dev/sda that was NOT the internal hard drive...

"sfdisk -l" is handy for debugging these sorts of things.

cjs
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