Quick thing, I see that SL50 compard to SL44 no longer has fstab-sync so 
hald doesn't call that to update the fstab on hotplug events any more.

When logged in using Gnome (and I guess KDE) clearly something is notified 
because usd disks get mounted under /media/<fs-label> and from the gui one 
can mount/umount it.

But from the command line because there is no entry in fstab you can 
umount it but can't mount it -- well I can't anyway.

I see that the gnome-mount tool can do it, e.g.

   gnome-mount -p VOLLAB -m VOLLAB

but how one is supoposed to know a suitable string it can map to the 
device isn't clear to me (previously one would simply need to look in 
fstab to find what hotplug/hal had done).

The (TUV) changelog for hal says that fstab-sync was dropped but not what 
one is supposed to use now.

Am I just missing something obvious or did I forget to install some 
relevant packages?

  -- Jon