Matthew Miller: >> Or just reformat the drive with >> >> mkfs -t vfat -n yourlabel /dev/whatever Yes, of course, I forgot about that. If you don't mind formatting a drive, that's an easy solution. Paul Smith: > Thanks to both. Now my pen drive has the label 'MYPEN', and there is > the following line in /etc/fstab: > > /dev/MYPEN /media/disco vfat noauto,user 0 0 > > but the pen drive is mounted on /media/MYPEN and not on /media/disco. Any ideas? Noticing you've already got an answer, but I'll point out why that doesn't work, for a couple of reasons: The label you give it is not a device, it's still going to be a device at /dev/sdb, or /dev/sdc, etc., the device, itself, has a "volume label" as part of the file system. Mounting via labels looks at what's stored on the device. Once you plug a device into Fedora that's got a volume, the auto-mounting system will mount it unless it finds something in the fstab file with the same details. If you had an entry for /dev/sdc in there, it'd never auto mount a /dev/sdc device. Which might be a problem, as the /dev/sdc thing you intended it for might be applied to something else attaining the /dev/sdc position. -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
