More Gnome 2.16/HAL issues

[Kevin Oberman]

I continue to see very strange behavior involving HAL and disks in
2.16. All ports are current as of about 8 hours ago.

I previously reported that HAL was not showing reasonable labels for
some devices. Well, this has changes, but I'm not sure that it is for
the better.

To make this issue tractable, I need to describe my system's
configuration a bit. It is a bit unusual and this my be the root of the
problems.

The system is my laptop, an IBM T43. IT has one fixed disk with 4
slices:
   Purpose	File Sys	Status
1. Windows	NTFS		not mounted in FreeBSD
2. IBM Recovery	FAT-32		not mounted by FreeBSD
3. FreeBSD	FFS		Partitioned
  a. /		FFS		Mounted
  b. swap	raw		Swap
  c. Disk	FFS		not mounted by FreeBSD
  d. /var	FFS		Mounted
  e. /tmp	FFS		Mounted
  f. /usr	FFS		Mounted
4. Scratch	FAT-32		Mounted

It also has a bay for a removable device which may be a hard drive or a
CD/DVD. At this time, I am booting with a second hard drive with two
slices. The first is an emergency OS partitioned like slice 3 on the
main disk. The second is a scratch space with only the c (raw)
partition.

By default, nothing on this drive is mounted at boot. I often hot-swap
it for the CD/DVD and need to have no mounted partitions on it when I
detach it.

Now, with HAL running, several partitions show up as mounted on
/media. (Where did /media come from?)

The Windows partition is mounted with the label it was created with but
which I changed in Windows. I have no ides where HAL finds "IBM_PRELOAD",
but that is the name it gives it.

The sliced first slice on the removable disk has two partitions mounted:
'a' (root) and 'd' (var). Why only these two I don't know. Also, to "shows"
the 'a' partition as "aux", the label on the 'f' partition???

I am now totally confused as to what the heck is happening. Very little
of it makes sense to me at all, but I suspect that fact that none of
these "removable" hard drive partitions or slices is in fstab may have
something to do with it.

I will leave discussion of HAL and my vnode-backed md disks for another
time. (It seems unable to deal with them, but that does not really have
any impact. And, I may have failed to note that on md device is union
mounted. Fun, huh?)
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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