Primm wrote:
On Sunday 24 December 2006 14:15, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* jdd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-24-06 07:31]:
the better way is to name the partition (label), so that
it's mounted in /media/<name>
however, I don't remember exactly how to name it :-(
The YasT Partition Editor can do it.
As it stands, /media/disk doesn't exist until I plug in the external disk.
That is what yast chose as a mount point when I formatted it (it had ntfs to
begin with). Is what you are saying to create a permanent directory called
<name> under the /media directory? Confused.
My main concern is that the mount point will always be the same every time I
plug it in. In my case /media/disk Or will it change depending upon what else
is plugged in? I need to write a script to rsync to it and so need to have a
fixed mount point.
I have a setup which is along the lines that you are trying to create -
except that I do not have a permanent mount point allocated to the
external HD (but I do use it for backup purposes - it's a 200GB/16MB
Maxtor).
When you plugin and switch on the HD an entry is made in /etc/mtab file.
Here for your info. is a copy of my mtab when I switched on my external
which I have partitioned into 150GB ntfs and 50GB reiserfs and these
show up at the bottom as sdb5 and sdb6:-
dev/hda9 / ext3 rw,acl,user_xattr 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/hdc11 /data ext3 rw,acl,user_xattr 0 0
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs
ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda5 /windows/D ntfs
ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda6 /windows/E ntfs
ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda7 /windows/F ntfs
ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda8 /windows/G ntfs
ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdc5 /windows/I ntfs
ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdc6 /windows/J ntfs
ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdc7 /windows/K ntfs
ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdc8 /windows/L vfat
rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/hdc9 /windows/M vfat
rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/hdc10 /windows/N vfat
rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
securityfs /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
/dev/sdb5 /media/disk ntfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uid=1000 0 0
/dev/sdb6 /media/disk-1 reiserfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0
Create in /etc/fstab the entry(ies) for your external HD with the info
shown in mtab and then also create the actual DIRECTORY for this entry.
For example, from the above I would create in /media a directory /disk
and a directory /disk-1 so that when you switch on (or plug it into the
USB port) the external HD it would get mounted to that directory (in my
case to /media/disk and /media/disk-1).
This help sort it out for you?
Cheers.
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