On 1/26/06, Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nat Gross wrote: > > > So, now the question is. Since this is some kind of auto thingamajig, > > can I still mount these partitions anywhere, say in /opt or > > /usr/share, whatever? > > Btw, I used ext2 on the 1, ext3 on 2 and 3. But fstab lists all as ext3. > > They are the same animal hardlinked... > > $ ll /sbin/mkfs.ext3 -i > 4943338 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 38752 Sep 8 17:38 /sbin/mkfs.ext3 > $ ll /sbin/mkfs.ext2 -i > 4943338 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 38752 Sep 8 17:38 /sbin/mkfs.ext2 > > > Not sure about controlling the automount point. If you are okay maybe > losing the automount action, you can just edit /etc/fstab and remove the > "managed" token, and adjust the mountpoint away from /media/blah. Sounds good to me. > There's probably a better way in the newfangled udev and other stuff > that makes this magic work but I know nothing about it. > > If you had enough investigations for now, Ha. And how! My head is spinning more than the drive! >I guess you can make a symlink ln -s /media/usbdisk /opt > > for example and get on with your master plan. Will do! Um...What's my master plan? Ohhh. I need to write some code. Thank you much; -nat
