On Thursday 15 November 2007 06:08:40 pm Bill Davidsen wrote: > 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? Bill: Thanks for the info. But I oppsed. I should have stated I am using the KDE desktop. It is been a very long time since I have used a gnome centric distribution. There is some thing under system disk management but it states there are no file systems user is allowed to mount. So how do I as user become owner of the external hard drive partitions? TIA > > -- > Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> > "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from > the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed Kubuntu 7.10 Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM & Yahoo ralphfdewitt jabber.org ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key id = 3097 3BC4 Kernel version 2.6.23.1-49.fc8 Current Linux uptime: 11 days 1 hours minutes.
