--- Jonatan Åkerlind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you name the SYMLINK="usb_hd" you could add an fstab line like > > /dev/usb_hd /media/usbdisk1 ... > > and mount that when you have the USB drive plugged in. Personally I > don't use HAL/pmount, but perhaps you could instruct the automounter > to > always use your fstab line for that specific drive?
Jonatan, Many thanks for taking the trouble to reply. Your reply made me understand something I hadn't realised before, namely, that if I give the drive a permanent name via a udev rule, then the fstab file will, in turn, automatically be using a permanent mount point for that permanently-named drive. However, when I created the permanent name via a SYMLINK and then edited the fstab file to include that permanent name, I found that, on reboot, the fstab file went back to the temporary name assigned by the kernel. Therefore, I created the permanent name by using the NAME key and then edited the fstab file to include that permanent name. That change to the fstab file did survive rebooting. Thanks again, Leslie Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- 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
