When I try to open my main linux partition (hda8 = /) from system:/media it says, that it couldn't mount it because according to mtab this partition is already mounted. (http://img414.imageshack.us/img414/617/screen12kb.jpg) Description to this situation: Hal support is turned on, and all options in kcontrol are checked (hal support, automounting, and so on). When I go to media:/ I have only partitions from hda there. And when I try to enter main partition / (hda8), I have got an error as in above screenshot. Everything is ok when I turn off Hal and automounting from kcontrol (kde 3.5.2) (http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/1273/screen28pd.jpg). Descrition: Hal support and automounting turned off. When I enter media:/ I have got partitions CD drives and usb pendrive (from fstab). And than I try to enter / (hda8) and everything is OK. df -h gives: /dev/hda8 8,5G 5,8G 2,3G 72% / udev 253M 156K 253M 1% /dev /dev/hda1 7,1G 3,6G 3,5G 51% /mnt/system /dev/hda5 5,0G 596M 4,5G 12% /mnt/programy /dev/hda6 5,0G 662M 4,4G 13% /mnt/media /dev/hda7 5,0G 371M 4,7G 8% /mnt/inne /dev/hda9 5,9G 863M 4,8G 16% /home shm 253M 0 253M 0% /dev/shm emerge --info: Portage 2.1_pre7-r4 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.16 -ck2-overdrive i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-ck2-overdrive i686 AMD Duron(tm) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share /config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/ pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/ distributions/gentoo" LANG="pl_PL" LC_ALL="pl_PL" LINGUAS="pl" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 acpi alsa amuled apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitma p-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cli crypt ctype cups curl dba dbus dri dvd eds emacs emboss encode esd expat fastbuild ffmpeg flac foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect for tran ftp gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg jp eg2k kde libg++ libwww mad memlimit mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg musicbrain z mysql nas nautilus ncurses nls nptl nsplugin nvidia ogg on-the-fly-crypt openg l oss pam pcre pdflib perl png posix pppd python qt quicktime readline real remo te rtc sdl sendfile session shaper simplexml sndfile soap sockets softquota spel l spl ssl svg symlink tcpd threads tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1- fonts udev vcd vorbis wifi win32codecs xcomposite xine xml xml2 xmms xsl xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux lingua s_pl userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Doesn't matter anymore. Newer HAL versions refuse to touch anything listed in fstab.