Pen-drive no longer automounts

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 14 February 2006 19:03, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > Whatever upset it yesterday has gone away today.  It's working again.
>
> This puts me in mind of something I encountered when using a
> USB disc. Sometimes the system recognized it as sde and sometimes
> as sda. I eventually put two entries into fstab, one for sda1
> and one for sde1. If one mount failed, I tried the other.
> I always used the same USB port.
>
> Since I dislike automount for hard drives and floppies, I never tried to
> get that to work, and it never did. Come to think of it, I may disable
> that for my CDROM drive as well. Hmm. I don't see anything in fstab
> which seems to be related. I'll have to do some research on that.
>
I'm not comfortable about attempting something in fstab when it's being 
controlled by fstab-sync.  I think I read that FC5 won't have fstab-sync, but 
for the moment I'm at a loss on how to add entries.  I am going to need to 
add some, so I too have some reading to do.

Anne