On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 04:33:17PM +0530, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > What steps are needed to ensure that a particular USB external HDD is > always mounted on a different mountpoint than /media/<VolLabel> and > one particular non-root user gets rw access to that drive. > > The 2TB drive has a NTFS partition with about 200GB of data in it. So > formatting is out of question. It will be connected to other Widows > (XP/7/2k3/2k8) machines.
How about using autofs? I'd write a script for autofs which would check, say the UUID, and then automatically mount it. However, one thing I wouldn't know is whether this would supercede the current (udev based) automounting feature; my experience is that it works well. Should you need some information on autfs scripts, please let me know. Kumar -- : ####[ GNU/Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]####################### Sub : Displaying your tty, date & time at login LOST #391 To have a display of the tty you are about to log into, with optional display of date/time, add following to '/etc/issue' (after removing the quotation marks): "Welcome to your_computer_name on \l [\d \t]" ####[usmbish (at) users.sourceforge.net]###################### : _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
