>> Perry Hoekstra wrote: >> > I am running Fedora Core 1 and I seem to be losing a directory. I >> > created a /mnt/zip directory and add the mount point to fstab. If I >> > shutdown the server and bring it back up, they are gone. Now, rather >> > than logging into root, I su to it. Would that make a difference? There is no significant difference between logging into root, and doing su from a user account. The difference is very unlikely to cause what (I think) you are describing. >On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 19:15, Steve Hanson wrote: >> What exactly does your fstab file look like? Perry Hoekstra wrote: >/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 >/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 >/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 When a Red Hat system boots up, a program called kudzu, looks for certain devices and adds the appropriate lines into /etc/fstab. kudzu adds the option kudzu in the lines it adds, so it can later identify the them and remove them it the corresponding device is not detected by kudzu. Remove the option kudzu from the /mnt/zip mount point line in /etc/fstab and kudzu should ignore it (not remove it). It also creates and removes device links in /dev. It usually has a 30 second time out during boot when it asks what it should do about added and removed hardware, but probably can be set to automatically add and remove device information rather than ignore device additions and removals. It also updates the /etc/sysconfig/hwconf file. Maybe kudzu is also cleaning out the /mnt directory, i.e. removing /mnt/zip when the zip drive or volume is missing? Check out the kudzu man page and especially the kudzu package documentation file, /usr/share/doc/kudzu*/README, for further information. I usually make a backup copy of my /etc/fstab in case kudzu decides to modify it. It doesn't really damage anything, but changes the time stamp of /etc/fstab and confuses one about when /etc/fstab was last changed by a human. Sincerely, Ken Fuchs <kfuchs at winternet.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list