On 12/31/2013 08:18 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > That looks normal. Having lines in fstab for removable media is not a > good solution in general - insert two sticks and the second one doesn't > have a matching line (it isn't /dev/sdb1)
Having a dos label on a memory stick allows you to mount it using the usual LABEL='mylabel' syntax, which is independent of the device name. sys-fs/dosfstools includes dosfslabel, which lets you put a disk label on a vfat-formatted memory stick. Since I stopped using consolekit (Canek talked me into it ;) I've had to authenticate as root for several things that were transparent before, like mounting removable drives and rebooting/powering-off the computer. While security is always annoying, I think the new behavior is probably better because it's non-M$ behavior and therefore safer.
