In the case of most distros, when a USB device is plugged in, hotplug (or some alt) will automatically do some stuff. From your description, it sounds like it is auto creating the mount point (/ media/<drive name>), and adding the details to the /etc/fstab. This will allow you to mount it using the shortcut syntax.mount <drive name>The shortcut syntax works by looking up your parameter in the /etc/ fstab for the rest of the details. If it cannot find the <drive name> then it will display an error.
Good assumption Lonnie; you were correct. I tried those shortcuts and they did work. This does appear to be the way that FC is handling things.
About mounting on boot, I highly doubt it will. Since it didn't auto-mount the drive when you plugged it in (only set up the details for you), it probably won't auto-mount at boot. I would suggest mounting the drive in your backup script, and unmounting it at the end of the script.
Excellent suggestion. I had not thought of that. I just made the change. This will solve all of the booting issues.
When you watch the boot up, does it appear to be booting directly to the external drive, or booting into Grub (or lilo) first, then booting the external drive.
It never actually booted from the external; just tried to. There is nothing on the external that it could use to boot.
If BIOS is booting the external drive, you would usually find it in the booting options. If Grub is booting the external drive, you need to look at your grub configuration (/boot/grub/menu.lst usually)
The frustrating thing is that the/an external drive is not listed as an option in the BIO boot order. And, even if it was, the option to disable items does not exist; you can only change their priority. Very frustrating.
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