Re: [CentOS] Mounting an external USB drive

On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Todd Cary wrote:

With Centos 5.5, my external USB drive appears to self mount in that the icon appears on the desktop and when I double click on it, the files are there. However, I recall that I need to make an entry in the fstab as well as some other changes.

When I do a

# /sbin/fdisk -l

I learn that the device is /dev/sda1 and the system is HPFS/NTFS

I am not sure what to enter into the file system table, fstab and if other entries/directories need to be made.

If it is mounted, why would you need to make fstab entries? The system already knows enough to make it useful.

Regards,