I have created a thumbdrive with a bootable version of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, it uses Grub legacy.
One of the issues I have is that everytime I boot a new system from the thumbdrive, it writes entries for the partitions in the fstab. Consequently, when I boot another system, the OS reads the fstab and tries to mount partitions that don't exist on the new system. I can simply manually edit the fstab before I shutdown the system, but want to automate this. I have looked at startup and shutdown scripts but they appear to be stopping and starting services. So my questions are:
Is a shutdown script the most appropriate way to re-write the fstab on shutdown?
If not, what is the most appropriate way and how should I implement it?
TIA
Stumpy