On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 23:02 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > It makes me wonder... What if i label the partitions the same as another > mountpoint? Forgot to answer this one: Then the lowest natural number N such that /media/<mount point candidate>N doesn't exist is chosen (where the mount point candidate is the massaged label, see my other mail). Note that, due to locking, only code from one copy of fstab-sync does this at a time so there should be no races. HTH, David