Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
max bianco wrote:
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.
Max
FC6 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 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.
Why would the box fail to boot? Assuming the drive does not contain any
system files needed at startup shouldn't it just make a note of the
missing drive in a log and keep going. You hinted at something related
to it being a USB drive.....
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.
If FC6 supports automounting the drive then why was an entry in fstab
needed in the first place?
Am i missing something that should be obvious here?
Max
