reusing mount points

Dj YB yehielb at mail.ru
Wed Oct 20 06:06:03 UTC 2010


On Wednesday October 20 2010 03:36:46 Sonic wrote:
>   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 device
> are not connected. Is that good?

as long as it will automount upon connection, and won't require "mount -a" or 
the like.

> 
> >> 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?

sorry for the misunderstanding.
the same mount point they automount now.
/media/PARTITION-LABEL


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