reusing mount points

Sonic get.sonic at gmail.com
Wed Oct 20 01:36:46 UTC 2010


  On 10/19/2010 11:57 AM, Dj YB wrote:
> On Tuesday October 19 2010 03:13:16 Sonic wrote:
>> Do you want *one* particular device to be mounted at the same mount
>> point all the time?
>> Or do you want that *any* USB device be mounted at the same mount point?
> any USB device.
>
>> If it's the former, add a line in /etc/fstab:
>> /dev/disk/by-label/<label>     /media/usb-device           auto
>> defaults,user,noauto    0 0
> can this be used for automount? , usually the devices are disconnected.
If you don't have noauto option, then you'll get boot-time mount fail 
messages if the devices are not connected. Is that good?


>> If it's the latter, then if you have two USB devices plugged in, where
>> should they be mounted?
> Each USB device have unique partitions labels, so should not be a problem.
No.. You said you want all USB devices to be mounted to the same mount 
point. Then if two devices are connected simultaneously, how will they 
be mounted?

Syam


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