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IM-04: How do I disable/enable supermount?

This question raises again and again either by users who find that supermount is buggy in their system, or by users who run non-mandrake kernels (without supermount support).

[LIST] supermount, run as root:




[*]In case you wish to (re-)enable supermount, obviously as root, run:


Finally, for a complete enabling of supermount, you have to manually mount your cdrom, floppy or whatever you want to use with supermount (just for the first time), or reboot if you are a *loser*. Thus you'll have supermount ready for those drives.[LIST]

The option "-i" is needed to made modifications directly to the /etc/fstab file.

Probably the "mount -a -o remount" part is not needed in our case, as we are just editing the removable media entries, but I've included it as I'm always used to run that command after altering the fstab file.

References:
man 8 supermount
man 5 fstab
man 8 mount
man 8 umount