On 3/26/2011 6:46 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thank you! Just taking me a while to find my way around. And yes, /etc/mtab had the data which sent me to /media/disk. Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com