>From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Date: 2007/08/10 Fri AM 07:29:55 CDT >To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: Re: How can you get a Seagate USB 160 GB drive to mount? >Matthew Flaschen wrote: >> Tim wrote: >>> On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 22:52 -0700, Richard England wrote: >>>> It does NOT "automount" like my USB thumb drives and USB printers >>>> automount. >>> Does the Windows volume have a name? (Same sort of thing as labels on >>> EXT3.) I seem to recall that's required for auto-mounting. >> >> I don't think that's correct. At least in KDE, it will automount to >> /media/disk(-n) [n would be a number, if there are multiple unlabeled disks] >> >That seams to depend on what version of the HAL rules you have. >Sometimes HAL works fine with unlabeled partitions, and sometimes it >does not. The partition type also sometimes makes a difference, >though I have not looked too deep into it. Adding a label may be >enough to make it auto-mount. But not if there is an entry in >/etc/fstab for it. I think HAL checks for a rule in /etc/fstab, and >does not mount if it finds one - probably to give you an easy way to >override HAL. > >Mikkel >-- > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, >for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! > > > >-- >fedora-list mailing list >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Thanks, I created the fstab entry only to test whether the device worked. I'll remove it. I don't think I've placed a label on an external device after the fact. What is the procedure? And does it have any harmful effects on data on the device? This drive has someone's complete audio collection on it and they would prefer to not loose it. :-) ~~R ~~R
