Thank you, Robert, JT for the help. I will give it a go. I have another question so will send another emai.
AO On 4/20/05, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > http://www.cwelug.org/downloads > Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS > for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > http://www.cwelug.org/ > [email protected] > http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug > -- "Believing one's self to be perfect is often the sign of a delusional mind" Data - First Contact _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list http://www.cwelug.org/ [email protected] http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug
