Nicolas George wrote: ... > songbird (12021-03-28): >> something is causing /etc/fstab to be rescanned when i change >> the file and i don't want that ever to happen unless i actually >> run the mount command myself. how can i turn this off? >>=20 >> MATE desktop, debian testing, up to date. >>=20 >> trying to figure out which part is causing this to happen. >>=20 >> any ideas? googling isn't giving me useful results and >> the man pages aren't either. :( > > Have you tested editing fstab from the console while no desktop > environment is running?
good idea, i'll give it a try sometime. thanks. songbird