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* Mark 27e3kk302@sneakemail.com [20060911 03:15]:

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Ok, I just took some minutes to finally implement it. (grml-)rebuildfstab supports LABELs and UUIDs now.

Fantastic. In response to the solicitation for feedback:

An issue we have with USB hard drives is that /mnt subfolders get stale as hardware changes. Grml creates the /mnt subfolders, but never deletes them. Obviously not a problem for live CDs, but it is for USB.

ACK, good catch.

It would be nice if grml would delete /mnt subfolders for hardware that it does not detect at boot.

So, how can grml know that it (not the user) created the folder. If the user created a /mnt subfolder grml probably should not delete it automatically.

Well, my suggestion: Every time grml creates a /mnt subfolder, drop an empty file into it named ".grml-auto-created-do-not-delete-this-file" or something like that. Actually, grml could put useful data into the file (such as date, UUID, filesystem type, etc.). This file lets grml know that it has permission to delete the folder.

Nice idea! I just implemented it. :)

Now running [grml-]rebuildfstab handles the /mnt/*-directories as well. It generates directories for all defined "mounting-targets" and adds an entry to /mnt/.grml-auto-created-do-not-delete-this-file for all automatically generated devices as well. When running [grml-]rebuildfstab once more it checks for present entries and deletes all auto-generated directories in /mnt if there does not exist an entry in /etc/fstab anymore. If you manually create a directory in /mnt/ it won't be touched at all.

I'm just preparing the packages grml-rebuildfstab-0.3 and grml-scanpartitions-0.3 and write documentation for all the new stuff. When I've finished testing the packages I'll upload them to the grml-repos and will included them in the upcoming grml 0.8-1 develrelease so you see it in action. :)

regards, -mika-