From: thorongil@telenet.be   
      
   On Tuesday 16 May 2017 00:45, Carlos E. R. conveyed the following to   
   alt.os.linux.suse...   
      
   > On 2017-05-15 07:19, Sidney_Kotic wrote:   
   >> On 05/13/2017 10:01 AM, William Unruh wrote:   
   >   
   >> I looked at the etc/fstab before and after the login process, before   
   >> the USB device isn't shown via a "df" command, after login it is.  In   
   >> either case the fstab is the same, and the USB device isn't shown.   
   >> So I thought logout and check to see if the USB device is still   
   >> there, it was (I was elated).  But on reboot it was not there, had a   
   >> beer and pondered.   
   >   
   > Why did you think that fstab would be modified by login? Of course it   
   > is not. /YOU/ personally have to modify fstab file. Desktops are not   
   > supposed to change it.   
      
   /etc/fstab is indeed not supposed to change without being edited   
   manually by the root user.   
      
   _However..._  Some early implementations of systemd/udev did indeed   
   modify the file whenever new hardware was plugged into the system.  It   
   wasn't supposed to, but it did.   
      
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