After I partition, format and label the Seagate FreeAgent Go 1T drive and I'm ready to mount it is this what I should use:
mount -t fuseblk -o rw,nosuid, nodev,allow_other,blocksize=4096 /dev/sdb1 /media/<myLabel>
Should I add - uhelper=hal to the mount?
mount -t fuseblk -o rw,nosuid, nodev,uhelper=hal,allow_other,blocksize=4096 /dev/sdb1 /media/<myLabel>
what about adding shortname=lower to the mount?
mount -t fuseblk -o rw,nosuid, nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,allow_other,blocksize=4096 /dev/sdb1 /media/<myLabel>
Thank you for your attention, consideration, and feedback.
Darlene Wallach
On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 15:16 -0700, Darlene Wallach wrote:
After I partition, format and label the Seagate FreeAgent Go 1T drive and I'm ready to mount it is this what I should use:
mount -t fuseblk -o rw,nosuid, nodev,allow_other,blocksize=4096 /dev/sdb1 /media/<myLabel>
Should I add - uhelper=hal to the mount?
mount -t fuseblk -o rw,nosuid, nodev,uhelper=hal,allow_other,blocksize=4096 /dev/sdb1 /media/<myLabel>
what about adding shortname=lower to the mount?
mount -t fuseblk -o rw,nosuid, nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,allow_other,blocksize=4096 /dev/sdb1 /media/<myLabel>
Thank you for your attention, consideration, and feedback.
---- What is it that you hope to accomplish by forcibly mounting this rather than just allowing the natural mount occur when you plug it in?
Craig
Craig,
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 15:16 -0700, Darlene Wallach wrote:
After I partition, format and label the Seagate FreeAgent Go 1T drive and I'm ready to mount it is this what I should use:
mount -t fuseblk -o rw,nosuid, nodev,allow_other,blocksize=4096 /dev/sdb1 /media/<myLabel>
Should I add - uhelper=hal to the mount?
mount -t fuseblk -o rw,nosuid, nodev,uhelper=hal,allow_other,blocksize=4096 /dev/sdb1 /media/<myLabel>
what about adding shortname=lower to the mount?
mount -t fuseblk -o rw,nosuid, nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,allow_other,blocksize=4096 /dev/sdb1 /media/<myLabel>
Thank you for your attention, consideration, and feedback.
What is it that you hope to accomplish by forcibly mounting this rather than just allowing the natural mount occur when you plug it in?
I am unmounting the drive then partitioning and formatting the drive for ext3. I thought I would have to mount it after that.
Craig
Darlene Wallach
On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 15:23 -0700, Craig White wrote:
What is it that you hope to accomplish by forcibly mounting this rather than just allowing the natural mount occur when you plug it in?
Perhaps some of the options they listed? (e.g. nosuid, nodev, and so on, and so forth.) Though I tend to agree, that they're better off letting it auto-mount, and put any special options in an auto-mounting rule. Putting hard mounting rules in fstab for a removable device comes back to bite you when it's turned off or not plugged in.
One problem with the external Seagate drives is that they power down after being idle for a while, and there's nothing you can do about that unless you're using them in Windows (there's a temporary solution with their software, which turns them always-on for that session, but doesn't permanently reprogram the drive enclosure to always behave that way). Another is the SMART tools won't talk to the drive.
On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 15:40 -0700, Darlene Wallach wrote:
Craig,
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 15:16 -0700, Darlene Wallach wrote:
After I partition, format and label the Seagate FreeAgent Go 1T drive and I'm ready to mount it is this what I should use:
mount -t fuseblk -o rw,nosuid, nodev,allow_other,blocksize=4096 /dev/sdb1 /media/<myLabel>
Should I add - uhelper=hal to the mount?
mount -t fuseblk -o rw,nosuid, nodev,uhelper=hal,allow_other,blocksize=4096 /dev/sdb1 /media/<myLabel>
what about adding shortname=lower to the mount?
mount -t fuseblk -o rw,nosuid, nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,allow_other,blocksize=4096 /dev/sdb1 /media/<myLabel>
Thank you for your attention, consideration, and feedback.
What is it that you hope to accomplish by forcibly mounting this rather than just allowing the natural mount occur when you plug it in?
I am unmounting the drive then partitioning and formatting the drive for ext3. I thought I would have to mount it after that.
---- just unplug and plug it back it back in and it automounts.
Craig
On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 15:40 -0700, Darlene Wallach wrote:
I am unmounting the drive then partitioning and formatting the drive for ext3. I thought I would have to mount it after that.
I've found that after things like that, and I've left the drive unmounted. There's an icon for it in Nautilus' computer space, or the tree in the left panel, and double-clicking it will auto-mount it.
KDE probably has something similar.
And unplugging, wait a moment, replugging, should probably work, too. It's probably a good idea to try that, once, on a freshly set up drive, anyway. To see if the drive auto-mounts in the usual way.
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