On Wednesday, Apr 20, 2005, at 11:11 US/Central, Anna Ohlson wrote:
What  I would like to do is have FCII auto mount it when
I power up the PC.

So if I do this  ~ # mount /mnt/flashdrive will the stick
auto mount each time or do I need to do something else.

Unfortunately, the answer to that question is, it depends. There are three related ways to mount your USB drive: long hand manually, an fstab entry, and the automount daemon.


The long hand method looks like so:
$ mount /dev/sdd /mnt/flashdrive
Depending on the filesystem, you can pass a number of arguments to mount using the -o option. You will also need to know what device the kernel assigns to your USB device. You can find this out by looking in /var/log/messages or dmesg.


The fstab entry method adds an entry to you /etc/fstab file like so:
  /dev/sdd  /mnt/flashdrive  auto  defaults 0 0
Then you can mount using the shortened version of the above:
  $ mount /mnt/flashdrive

The automount method requires that you start the autofs deamon and configure it using entries in /etc/auto.* files.

HTH and let us know how things go.

Regards,
- Robert
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