automounter ignores UUID entries in fstab

[John S]

I have an external USB drive. By default, when I plug it in it comes up as /media/usbdisk. However, it is possible to override this with a line like "/dev/sda1 /media/MyName ..." in /etc/fstab. Then, when the drive is plugged in it is mounted as /media/MyName.

However, when the entry in fstab uses a UUID instead of a '/dev/sdxx' filename, the drive is automounted as 'usbdisk'. If one then unmounts usbdisk and does a "mount /dev/sda1" then it is mounted correctly as 'MyName'. So the manual 'mount' tool appears to identify drives by UUID correctly, while the automounter doesn't.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Tentatively pmount, but I don't know exactly where in the stack this should live. Martin?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Which release are you on? Feisty should get this right, and the pmount bug is already known as bug 69087.

[John S (jcspray)]

Yup, looks like this is the same as bug 69087, go ahead and mark as dupe.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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