On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Tom Diehl tdiehl@rogueind.com wrote:
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,
USB drive detection has gotten better. If you'd like to see what it's currently mounted as, look in /etc/mtab. You should see its contents in "/media/[whatever]", where whatever depends on the type and any associated names of the contents of the media. /etc/mtab should give you the basic settings for /etc/fstab, with a bit of tweaking, but I urge you not to rely on /etc/fstab for default mounting: review the use of the "noauto" if you need to, in order to allow you to mount it only on request.