On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 08:55 -0800, tlhackque wrote: > 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. > > /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 No sign of an entry for the drive, so I guess by "manually mounted", you're typing in commands in the CLI, rather than referring to details you've written into the fstab file. For automounting, it's going to be dependent on one or more services (haldaemon, at least). > 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? It's discovered from my drive, others *may* be the same. I used a tool to query the information present in my drive (see the page I referred you to, before): <http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html> There are other "usbview" tools which can show you such information. > 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.) Yes, I thought the same. I left things as they were, manually configured, until I was given a USB drive for Christmas, then had to face the problem of correctly/sensibly mounting the USB flash drive and my digital camera at the same time. I have two identical motherboards, with nearly the same FC4 installation on each, they both auto-mount, but don't behave the same way. On one, the USB drive's activity lead pulses regularly, all of the time (whether mounted or not), on the other, it only blinks when I expect it to (when I know there's drive activity). -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
