I just tried it with an vfat filesystem and using labels doesn't seem to work. Shame.
[antonia] ~ > mkfs.vfat -n USB_STICK /dev/sda1 mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 Feb 2001) [antonia] ~ > grep USB /etc/fstab LABEL=USB_STICK /mnt/usb_stick auto noauto,user 0 0 [antonia] ~ > mount /mnt/usb_stick mount: no such partition found On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Leslie Katz wrote: > Thank you to both Stephen J Gowdy and Alan Stern for replying to my > query. > > Stephen suggested editing fstab to use labels for the two drives > concerned. Alan referred to the alternative of a udev rule. > > I think I should supplement what I wrote at first by mentioning that > both USB drives, the flash drive and the hard drive, have the vfat > filesystem type (chosen by me so that the drives could be shared > between Linux and Windows). > > In full, the two relevant lines in fstab are as follows: > > /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdisk vfat > pamconsole,exec,noauto,iocharset=utf8,noatime,sync,managed 0 0 > > /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk1 vfat > pamconsole,exec,noauto,iocharset=utf8,managed 0 0 > > sdb1 is the USB flash drive and sda1 is the USB hard drive. > > I looked at the man page for fstab and it seemed to say that one could > only use labels on devices with filesystems of type ext2 or xfs. > However, that man page was dated 15 June 1999 and applied to kernel > version 2.2. > > Have things now changed so as to permit the use of labels for devices > with the vfat filesystem? > > If not, then I'd either have to try to create an appropriate udev rule > or else be sure always have both drives plugged in on boot-up. At least > I have some confidence that I could manage the second of those two > possibilities! > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
