On Friday 23 February 2007 00:49, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:15:28 +0000, Mick wrote: > > I've looked around for an explanation, but I have failed to find enough > > to help me understand. Would you care to explain or point me to some > > relevant links. How is one meant to mount a USB stick when on a > > console? > > > > A long time ago I created relevant entries in my fstab, because back > > then automounting was quite involved and a tad unstable. I have still > > some entries like: > > > > # Flash Card > > /dev/sda /mnt/sda auto,vfat,msdos noauto,user,noatime 0 0 > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto,vfat,msdos noauto,user,noatime 0 0 > > to be able to mount USB pen drives manually. However, because of these > > fstab entries when I automount them using a GUI (Konqueror), they are > > mounted under /mnt/sda not under /media/disk. > > Remove the entries from /etc/fstab, then KDE will automount them > under /media/<volume name>. To mount manually from a terminal or console, > use "pmount /dev/sda1", you don't need to be root to do this, to have the > device mounted in the same place as with KDE.
Ahh! man pmount, I forgot about this command . . . Thank you very much. Just what I was looking for. -- Regards, Mick
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