On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Carl Crider wrote:
hey there, i've got a box loaded with ubuntu, well, kubuntu 5.10 actually.
is this 2.4?
if 2.6, do you have a working udev?
anyway, i think i may be having a total brain-fart moment
here, as i cant seem to get the drive mounted.
here's my fstab:
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 / ext3
defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid,nouser 0 1
/dev/hdb5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/usb0 auto ,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid,user 0 0
in 2.4 usb devices are named in the order of kernel
discovery. If you plugged two usb drives in, the 2nd one
will be /dev/sdb. Look in the logs to see that a device
(/dev/sd[a-z]) has been recognised. Mount the name you see.
There's no point in having an entry in /etc/fstab, as the
device won't have the same name each time you insert it.
You could go the LABEL route. LABEL your drive, then use a
line like
LABEL=pny /pny ext3 noauto 0 0
in your /etc/fstab. Of course then all external drives have
to be labelled, or mount won't mount an unLABELled removable
drive. I don't know the fix for that, and no-one else here
seems to either.
In 2.6, udev assigns names based on udev rules. You don't
mount the device discovered by the kernel (/dev/sda) but
udev's mapping on it eg /dev/pny (the name I give my PNY
brand flash disk). If this is the case, look up the HOWTOs
for writing udev rules.
Joe
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