Ralph De Witt wrote:
Hello All:
I am new to Fedora. Just installed Fedora 8 on my Dell Inspiron Laptop. So far
I am impressed. I have a USB External hard drive that is attached. Does
anyone know how to permanently mount the partitions on it? I would like to
use it for Hard Drive back up and to play music files from. Also could you
recommend a good way to back up my current lappy hard disk to one of the
partitions on the external hard drive. TIA
I suspect you don't really want to "permanently mount" removable
filesystems, what you want is to mount them if the device is present.
You have an option in system->preferences->removable media which is
probably what you want. You *may* be able to put lines in /etc/fstab for
"noauto" mounting, I don't know if that would be scanned by the hotplug
stuff. Of course, if you don't care too much about all the filesystems
being mounted on /media/* points, just enable automount, make sure the
filesystems on the removable device are labeled (see tune2fs) and you're
done.
Wasn't that easy?
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
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