I'd check the /var/log/messages file with
tail -f /var/log/messages
observe this as you plug the thumb drive in/out to see which device it's being assigned too. Some of these USB devices are a little tricky to follow -- I've noticed that at work on RedHat7.3-- I can just add an entry to the /etc/fstab file like you described-- and at home on SuSE8.2-- It goes through with some proc daemon that auto mounts my usb keychain. Since I've formatted my flash keychain drive as an ext2 format-- I need to have an entry in the /etc/fstab to force it to ext2 fs. At home-- the only trick is I have to manually unmount the incorrectly mounted device and then manually remount it.
As far as you file.. the line you've added has an extra space between *noauto,* and *users,*
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/thumb vfat,ext2,hfsplus noauto, users,dev 0 0
space right here --> X
Try pulling that out and see if everything works...
Justin Gedge
Jared Bernard wrote:
I'm not sure what's going on with my thumb drive on my main box.
first I 'mkdir /mnt/thumb' edit /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1 /dev/hda2 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,dev,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,users,dev,ro 0 0 /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy vfat,ext2,hfsplus noauto,users,dev 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash vfat,ext2,hfsplus noauto,users,dev 0 0
I add the following line the end: /dev/sdb1 /mnt/thumb vfat,ext2,hfsplus noauto, users,dev 0 0
save.
plug in the thumb drive.
dir - /mnt/thumb and the last line in /etc/fstab disappears.
What's going on?
/dev/sda1 is a flash card reader, I assumed since the thumb drive is flash as well that the entry in fstab should be similar. Though, even if it was entered incorrectly what would make it disappear?
Is there something wrong with my entry in fstab?
JB
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