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On Friday 23 February 2007 00:49, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:15:28 +0000, Mick wrote: |
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> > I've looked around for an explanation, but I have failed to find enough |
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> > to help me understand. Would you care to explain or point me to some |
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> > relevant links. How is one meant to mount a USB stick when on a |
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> > console? |
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> > A long time ago I created relevant entries in my fstab, because back |
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> > then automounting was quite involved and a tad unstable. I have still |
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> > some entries like: |
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> > # Flash Card |
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> > /dev/sda /mnt/sda auto,vfat,msdos noauto,user,noatime 0 0 |
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> > /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto,vfat,msdos noauto,user,noatime 0 0 |
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> > to be able to mount USB pen drives manually. However, because of these |
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> > fstab entries when I automount them using a GUI (Konqueror), they are |
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> > mounted under /mnt/sda not under /media/disk. |
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> Remove the entries from /etc/fstab, then KDE will automount them |
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> under /media/<volume name>. To mount manually from a terminal or console, |
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> use "pmount /dev/sda1", you don't need to be root to do this, to have the |
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> device mounted in the same place as with KDE. |
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Ahh! man pmount, I forgot about this command . . . |
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Thank you very much. Just what I was looking for. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |