On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Tom Diehl <tdiehl at 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.