[CentOS] Mounting an external USB drive

[Todd Cary]

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.
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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

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