OK, here's fstab. Vanilla - untouched by human hands. This IS with the drive in & (manually) mounted. So fstab-sync isn't making a "managed" entry for some reason. Not clear how to make an entry, as drives seem to get different sd? names assigned. Wouldn't mind the blue drive always being a certain mount point. Of course, some are vfat, some aren't - so "auto" would be the fstype of choice. Doesn't matter if the mount point exists or not. So is the "USB Flash Driver" in your rule a generic answer for all USB Flash devices, or is it a function of the specific model/mfgr that one plugs in? That is, do I have to connect "LEXAR BLAH" to that driver for this part of configuration to work? (Some part of the connection is made since maual mounts work.) Looking at the reference material - wow! Infinitely flexible, but all I wanted was to just plug in my drive and have it work. Looks like I have a lot of digging to do (and yet another scriping language to learn.) Thanks for the pointer; I guess I'll figure it out. #cat /etc/fstab # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/hda /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 --------------------------------------------------------- This communication may not represent my employer's views, if any, on the matters discussed. -----Original Message----- From: Tim [mailto:ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 09:06 To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Configuring Fedora Core 4 & USB Flash drives? On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 05:08 -0800, tlhackque wrote: > Fedora Core 4. Plug in a USB thumb drive. > Successfully recognized by the kernel & a SCSI "drive" is created. > But it doesn't get mounted put on the desktop. CDROMs/DVDs do. I > have the desktop->preferences->removable drives->{mount drives when > hot-plugged, media when inserted clicked. A manual mount does work; > the device then appears on the desktop as expected. > > So something in the hotplug chain is deciding not to do the mount. I > got lost in the hal/hotplug/automount scripts. > Someone's been here before. What's the easiest way to track this down? > (Or the recipe for configuring this device?) Show us your /etc/fstab file. I've just been experimenting with the same thing myself. If I made no entry for the drive in my fstab file, nor created the mount point directory, the system took care of everything itself (including mounting an icon on the desktop). But if I did make an fstab entry, I had to make one in the same fashion as it did (the auto-mounting routine), and I had to create the mount point diretory, for it to work. e.g. Here's mine: /dev/flashdrive /media/flashdrive vfat pamconsole,noexec,nodev,noauto,dmask=0002,fmask=0113,fscontext=system_u:obje ct_r:removable_t 0 0 (Note the fscontext details. The mask options are just to suit my needs; I don't want files with executable bits set.) The flashdrive device was set up by a rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/. I've a "10-local.rules" file, in there, with this in it: BUS=="scsi", SYSFS{model}=="USB Flash Driver", SYMLINK="flashdrive" Some reference material about this: <http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html> I've almost got the mounting the way I want it. What I don't want is an icon on the desktop, or an entry in Nautilus, saying "131M Removeable Media", I want to pick the name myself. I haven't worked out where that's set. And why do I care about that? Because my digital camera auto mounts with almost the same title (128M instead of 131M). I want names that mean something to me. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL ? Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com
