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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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Isn't there another way that mounts automatically? Mine used to do that |
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and I think it was ivman. I noticed it doesn't do that any more |
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though. I don't have ivman installed so that may explain that. I seem |
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to recall a clash with the new KDE and ivman or something. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) |
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