On 18 Jan 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 19:02, Marcel Pol wrote: > > > If that uses also usb-storage, then it gets seen as /dev/sda also. If there's > > a /dev°sda1 it will be mounted. I don't have such a thing, but I'd expect that > > that would happen. > > I can see this being a problem, then. Imagine if there was an > ext2-formatted floppy in the USB drive...
Use fs=auto like supermount does on standard removeable devices. > or even, I think with my USB > floppy /dev/sda1 does exist, but you have to mount /dev/sda for it to > work. Why is that a problem? You would have an extra line fstab for it. Sure, if you attached them in a different order, the names might get swapped (unless supermount can use labels?), but it't not such a train smash. > So I think this wouldn't work as a general solution to be included > in Mandrake. Have you got a better solution? automount? And it would probably not be configured automatically. hot-plug could handle initial use, MCC could have a program that sets up currently-connected devices for future use (ie if you use it more than occasionally). Anyway, I don't know how many people currently have more than one usb-storage device attached at a time ... but of course this will occur in the future .. Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
