fstab entry for usbkey

Jonathan Rawle jr36 at leicester.ac.uk
Thu Jun 3 10:49:37 UTC 2004


Ow Mun Heng wrote:

> Are you sure it's at sda1?? Can you take a look at your
> /var/log/messages when you plug it in? or maybe even do a  cat
> /proc/partitions
> 
> It might be loaded up as sda2 or sdb1 or ...

After plugging in the usbkey, look in dmesg - that'll tell you what device
it has been allocated.

You can set up updfstab to write an entry in fstab with the correct device
every time you hotplug the usbkey - it might not always be the same one.

Jonathan






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