Been having this problem for a while now. Used devlabel to deal with a previous problem that depending on whether my printer was switched on or not would affect which device my usb pendrive was picked up as. devlabel allowed me to use a symlink to the device which it would create and delete when the device was added removed, which meant that I could use a consistent device name in my /etc/fstab file. This allowed me to set it up so that any user could mount/unmount my pendrive. my /etc/fstab file has the following entry for this device. /dev/usb-pendrive /mnt/usb-pendrive vfat noauto,owner,kudzu,users,noatime,gid=100,umask=002 0 0 The problem is that when updfstab is run I get the following message cannot stat /dev/usb-pendrive: No such file or directory which is not supprising really, since unless the pendrive is actually connected to the machine the device entry isn't going to exist since devlabel will delete it. The possible solutions I can see are: Get updfstab to ignore the entries in /etc/fstab that depend on entries that may not exist Get devlabel to not delete the symlink when the device is removed and instead point it to a non used dev that will not be used by a device (/dev/null comes to mind, but I'm sure there are others). I can't seem to work out how to do either of the above or locate any entries on the internet that cover the same problem. Or is all just a case that I've added the usb pendrive incorrectly and I should be adding it so that devlabel and updfstab will create the desired /etc/fstab entry for me when the pendrive is plugged into the PC? -- Darragh "Nothing's foolproof to a sufficently talented fool"
