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

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Curt Sampson writes:
 > 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.

But in those cases there is a word from root (ie, at configure time).
It sounds to me like this happens by default on (K)ubuntu.

 > > 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.

Er, how does that work if the system currently running (the installed
system on the boot HDD) is not the system doing these sorts of things
(the installer running from floppy or initrd)?