max bianco wrote:
If you remove the noauto, the init scripts will try to mount the drive. The problem is, if the drive is not plugged in, the system will not be able to mount it, and may not boot. (It is a USB drive.) If there is an entry in /etc/fstab, then the hotplug auto-mounting will not work.2008/4/2 Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:max bianco wrote:I am not sure what his fstab should look like but as far as using the mount command I have always found that you have to be root or have permission explicitly granted. I plug in my external drive and it just automounts for me, i don't remember doing anything special to get this to work, but apparently this was not the case in FC6, i have never used FC6. Hopefully he will let us know what happened. MaxFC6 would auto mount as well. But if you have an entry in /etc/fstab for the device, it will not get auto-mounted.shouldn't it mount if the "noauto" is removed from fstab? Max
If I remember correctly, auto-mounting in FC6 works better if the partition has a name. If the NTFS partition was names SHAREd, then the drive partition would get mounted on /media/SHARED. This also works in later versions. Changing the permissions and mount options different than using fstab, and involves learning a different set of rules. But tools are being developed to make it easier.
Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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