Devlabel and Fstab with usb pendrive
Greg Wildman
rhlist at itns.co.za
Thu Jul 22 07:51:09 UTC 2004
Darragh Bailey said the following on 21/07/2004 12:31:
> Been having this problem for a while now.
>
> Used devlabel to deal with a previous problem that depending on whether my
> printer was switched on or not would affect which device my usb pendrive was
> picked up as. devlabel allowed me to use a symlink to the device which it would
> create and delete when the device was added removed, which meant that I could
> use a consistent device name in my /etc/fstab file. This allowed me to set it
> up so that any user could mount/unmount my pendrive.
>
>
> my /etc/fstab file has the following entry for this device.
> /dev/usb-pendrive /mnt/usb-pendrive vfat
> noauto,owner,kudzu,users,noatime,gid=100,umask=002 0 0
>
>
> The problem is that when updfstab is run I get the following message
> cannot stat /dev/usb-pendrive: No such file or directory
>
> which is not supprising really, since unless the pendrive is actually connected
> to the machine the device entry isn't going to exist since devlabel will delete
> it.
<snip>
To stop updfstab from complaining about /dev/usb-pendrive remove the
"kudzu" option.
You should rather use the /etc/updfstab* for you device as it will
create the entry in /etc/fstab whenever the device is plugged in and
remove it after the device is removed.
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