Re: usb mount point control

[jack craig]

you are on the money Mikkel,

after my first email, i noted that in fact what i had on FC10's fstab 
was /dev/sdb1, not the /dev/sdd1 that is the actual device node being used.

how happy i was in my ignorance!  i also just read in a related thread 
that using fstab isn't a good idea as its used primarily at boot time.

let me slap a label on this puppy and see if i can make it howl! :)

thx again, jackc...


On 06/30/2009 04:06 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>  jack craig wrote:
>     
> > Hi Fedora Folks,
> >
> > over the weekend, i decided to upgrade my fc10 to fc11. it wasnt too
> > painful, it only broke my email and mplayer.
> >
> > however, as i used my sd card to shuttle files to/from my moblin
> > netbook, i had a /etc/fstab entry of the form, ...
> >
> > /dev/sdd1  /media/disk             ext3                defaults   0 0
> >
> > and this bought me the assurance that upon mount, /media/disk/.. is
> > where i'd find my sd card files.
> >
> > now with fc11, this same entry fails to do the job, i get a system
> > generated mount point of the form, ...
> >
> > /dev/sdd1 on /media/c35d465d-bf2b-4c9a-9fd4-5a6e02d8d219 type ext2
> > (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit)
> >
> > and if i add my fstab entry, i get an error about only root can mount
> > /dev/sdd1 on /media/disk.
> >
> > could someone point me to how to override this behaviour?
> >
> >      
>  With that fstab entry, you should have gotten the same error in F10.
>  You need the user or users option to let a normal user mount an
>  entry in fstab. What it looks like you are getting as a mount point
>  is the uuid of the partation on the SD card. I suspect that the
>  fstab entry was not used in F10, and HAL was using /media/disk as
>  the mount point. Now, if you label the partition, you should get a
>  mount point of /media/<label>.
>
>  Mikkel
>      
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