[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux is becoming like Microsoft

[Sally Welch]

On 9/24/07, ./aal <al_h at technologist.com> wrote:
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> On 9/24/07, Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net> wrote:
> > and it's not a good thing.  Tried to 'mount -o rw /dev/fd0
> > /media/floppy'.  Mount didn't complain but it mounted it read-only
> > except to root.  Edited fstab and rebooted, my changes "auto-magically"
> > disappeared.  Seems fstab-sync (a.k.a fstab-borg - you have been
> > assimilated, resistance is futile) is the culprit.  30 minutes of
> > reading later I find I need to learn something about XML and the
> > less-than-obvious HAL vocabulary to make modifications.  I could just
> > disable fstab-sync but I try to go with the newer technology just to
> > keep up.  However, these politically-correct-isms are irritating.
> >
> > Is there an easy and obvious way to fix fstab so that the floppy is
> > user-mountable read-write?
> >
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