Using FC3T3: Ok, so the little Shuttle box has a firewire drive enclosure plugged into it all the time that I want to have connect _as a normal drive_ at boot time. (Because if I mount the /media/ieee1394 drive with the entry hal leaves in /etc/fstab, selinux proceeds to make rsync barf; since the external drive is the backup drive, I very much don't want that.) If I hand edit /etc/fstab so that the relevant entry is: /dev/sda1 /backup ext3 defaults 1 2 Everything works fine. How do I convince fstab-sync to provide an entry like that? Is there something else I need to convince? Along with this, there's the partition used for hard drive installs, which I can't label at install time. fstab-sync is picking it up as well, as a noauto removable drive. I don't think that's entirely sensible default behaviour for a partition on the primary hard drive. /dev/hda5 /media/idedisk ext3 pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 If there's some documentation with examples, I'd appreciate a pointer; the man page is not informative, at least not if one doesn't already understand hal and UDIs. Thanks! Graydon