adds removable devices to fstab by default

[Martin Pitt]

I just did a 20060915.1 ppc/desktop install with erasing the complete hard disk. This time I (more or less accidentally) left my USB stick plugged in while installing. The resulting fstab now has

/dev/sda1 /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda2 /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

This is problematic in several ways, since it breaks:

 * device labels
 * pmount's more secure umask settings
 * mounting of encrypted partitions

Since we handle removable devices automatially anyway, I would recommend to just ignore them by default.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Kenneth, ISTR that this hit you as well in the past, thus I subscribed you FYI.

[Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)]

For me it was troublesome because per default I could no longer mount the disk during runtime without doing it as root in the terminal. In my case it was a firewire drive.

Somewhere deep in the partitioner I guess I could have deselected the drive during install. The normal user should not be expected to click on things in the partitioner unless they have special wishes or specific problems.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Marking for beta, since I guess many people will upgrade from beta to final rather than installing it, and this bug cannot be solved by upgrades.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Done for USB devices. I haven't touched CD-ROMs because I have a suspicion that doing so may break some bits of the installer at least in corner cases, and I don't want to risk that at this point.

partman-target (45ubuntu2) edgy; urgency=low

  * Disable automatic mounting of USB removable devices (closes: Malone
    #60552).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:47:42 +0100

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Oops. This affects partman-basicfilesystems as well, since it's what sets up automatic mountpoints.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

partman-basicfilesystems (47ubuntu3) edgy; urgency=low

  * Don't automatically set up mount points for IEEE1394 or USB removable
    devices (closes: Malone #60552).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:24:28 +0100