Leonard den Ottolander wrote, On 11/17/2010 03:45 AM: > Hello Dick, > > On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 22:52 -0500, Dick Roth wrote: >> /dev/sdb /usbdrive ext3 user,noauto,rw 0 2 > > The last entry is the fsck order used at boot. Setting it to 2 probably > prompts the system to check it. > > Anyway, you shouldn't need to add explicit entries to fstab to mount usb > drives. They should get auto mounted when you plug them in (I think the > autofs and haldaemon services are required to run for this to happen). > haldaemon yes autofs no The auto-mounting of removable media on the local machine now happens as an interaction between hal and your *windowing_environment*. i.e. in with gnome I, as a normal user, have to go to Start(chaos symbol) -> System -> Preferences -> Removable Drives and media Which brings up a window titled "Removable Drives and Media Preferences" and un-check the "Mount removable media when inserted" and the "Burn a CD or DVD when a blank disk is inserted" so that I can work with rewritable CD/DVD media the way I want. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter