fstab and mount question

[R Kimber]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:44:02 -0700
Jim Richardson <warlock at eskimo.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 20:13 +0100, R Kimber wrote:
> > In /etc/fstab I have:-
> > 
> > /dev/sda4       /mnt/pd         ext2    rw,users,noauto  0       0
> > 
> > whenever I boot up /dev/sda4 is always mounted.  Why is that? Is
> > there something in the destop environment that is overriding
> > fstab?  Or is my fstab entry faulty?
> 
> 
> Is this a USB device? they are typically represented by scsi
> subsystem, if so, it's possible that the hotplug system is mounting
> it. -- 
> Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
> Fornication, n.: Term used by people who don't have anybody to screw
> with.
> 

Yes, it's USB.

I'm not convinced it's hotplug, as I've used this before and not
experienced the problem.  I'll have a look at the gnome-volume-manager,
maybe that's it, as Christian suggested.  I'm relatively new to Gnome.

- Richard
-- 
Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/