bukharin;203019 Wrote: > That may work, but the problem is that the external hard drive is not > guaranteed to remain /dev/sda1. If, for example, you plug in a USB > thumb drive or a digital camera -before- plugging in the external hard > drive, then that device will become /dev/sda1 and the external drive, > when plugged in, might be /dev/sdb1. Assuming it will always be > /dev/sda1 could lead to (big) problems down the track. > > That's why I suggested mounting it manually to see if that fixes the > problem, and then looking into Ubuntu's automounting system so that you > can fix the problem at its root.
Good one, I never thought of that. I don't use a thumb drive so it's never come up for me. BTW Ubuntu 7.04 has problems with removable media in that you can't remove it - it thinks it's like a CD and will only allow you to "eject" it from the desktop, which won't work for a removable drive. To avoid the risk of filesystem errors, it should be unmounted using "sudo umount" and the drive /dev/hdX or dev/sdX path. -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35254 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
