question regarding mounting the Seagate FreeAgent Go 1T drive

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 15:40 -0700, Darlene Wallach wrote:
> Craig,
> 
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 15:16 -0700, Darlene Wallach wrote:
> >> After I partition, format and label the Seagate FreeAgent Go 1T drive
> >> and I'm ready to mount it is this what I should use:
> >>
> >> mount -t fuseblk -o rw,nosuid, nodev,allow_other,blocksize=4096
> >> /dev/sdb1 /media/<myLabel>
> >>
> >> Should I add - uhelper=hal to the mount?
> >>
> >> mount -t fuseblk -o rw,nosuid,
> >> nodev,uhelper=hal,allow_other,blocksize=4096 /dev/sdb1
> >> /media/<myLabel>
> >>
> >> what about adding shortname=lower to the mount?
> >>
> >> mount -t fuseblk -o rw,nosuid,
> >> nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,allow_other,blocksize=4096 /dev/sdb1
> >> /media/<myLabel>
> >>
> >> Thank you for your attention, consideration, and feedback.
> > ----
> > What is it that you hope to accomplish by forcibly mounting this rather
> > than just allowing the natural mount occur when you plug it in?
> 
> I am unmounting the drive then partitioning and formatting the drive
> for ext3. I thought I would have to mount it after that.
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just unplug and plug it back it back in and it automounts.

Craig



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