On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:58:16PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:

> >  ? gtar: ./media/floppy: Cannot savedir: No medium found
> >  ? gtar: ./media/floppy: Warning: Cannot savedir: No medium found
> >The /media directory is handled by an automounter, hence the error message.
> Strange it gives any error!  Only for floppy and not for e.g. cdrom??

Now that you mention it, it looks strange to me too...

> Just curious, what kind of automounter is that?

It's hal.  This is the one that is installed by default on suse-10.0.

> In my environment (CentOS4) the /media is handled by hald (and
> fstab updated by fstab-sync), and there is no such problem.

Hmmm...