On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:33:39PM -0600, kwhiskers wrote: > On 25/10/05, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 19:36 -0600, kwhiskers wrote: > > > I was wondering about the noauto option. I read the documentation, but > > > got the impression this refers to automounting at boot. My situation > > > is that this device will never be connected at boot, but only > > > connected after the system has already booted up and disconnected well > > > before the system ever shuts down. I will try. > > > > Since your message doesn't say anything about how you're using noauto, I > > can only give a general reply: > > > > In the /etc/fstab file using a "noauto" option means that it won't be > > automatically mounted as the computer boots up. > > > > Without trying out other options, too, you'd need to be root to manually > > mount such an entry. Throwing in "user" will allow a user to mount > > something as their own. Using "users", instead, will allow anybody to > > mount and dismount it. See the mount and fstab man pages. > > > > -- > > > > I have noauto in this context: pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed > > I simply copied it from the cdrecorder, cdrom and floppy lines, as they have > the same and also all appear under /media. Not very intelligent, but I > wasn't sure what else to put there, since the 'managed' threw me and I was > stumped when lines kept disappearing and then reappearing from fstab. I do > get that now, but the ones that reappear aren't the ones that disappeared, I > have noticed, so the system must have some overrides stored somewhere that > are not the same as the ones I had chosen. > > In any case, I did try auto, but with the other options, as above, but when > I plugged the camera in, what I had put into fstab simply disappeared and > the old line with noauto reappeared. > > This is not a huge problem, as I said, now that I have spent so much time on > it, and have seen that firstly, nobody has any answers, and secondly, all > the work I have done and suggestions, both here and on other websites, have > had me just going in circles and getting nowhere. > > I can mount manually, which is fine, I guess. I just thought that cds mount > themselves when inserted, so why not a camera. I am using the same fstab > option that cds have, and they work there. With my camera which uses a usb connection it is automatically mounted . Do not usb devices automount on your machine? auto-mounting that is done to a CD is not the same as auto in your fstab but is handled by the automounter. Look at man automount -- ======================================================================= sushi, n.: When that-which-may-still-be-alive is put on top of rice and strapped on with electrical tape. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
