ok this may be your intention but what about inserting a normal hard drive in your system which contains a ready set up filesystem with lots of data. which the installer obviously could not detect. or a CF card on the ide bus. Or the user has no nerves to configure all partititions and mountpoints during setup which is no the easiest part for a linux newbie. And in my opinion if there is any partitition in a system it has to be mountable at all. Even the live cd isn't able to mount a Partitition on a System if i want to access the Data there. And the So called "Drive-Setup"- Tools in Ubuntu have no opportunity to make the activation of a specific Partitition permanent. Until these tools are not able to modify my fstab easily pmount shouldn't refuse to mount nonremovable drives without fstab entry.
ok this may be your intention but what about inserting a normal hard drive in your system which contains a ready set up filesystem with lots of data. which the installer obviously could not detect. or a CF card on the ide bus. Or the user has no nerves to configure all partititions and mountpoints during setup which is no the easiest part for a linux newbie. And in my opinion if there is any partitition in a system it has to be mountable at all. Even the live cd isn't able to mount a Partitition on a System if i want to access the Data there. And the So called "Drive-Setup"- Tools in Ubuntu have no opportunity to make the activation of a specific Partitition permanent. Until these tools are not able to modify my fstab easily pmount shouldn't refuse to mount nonremovable drives without fstab entry.