basic method : $ mount [-t fstype...] [-o options...] /dev/sda1 /mountpoint $ ls /mountpoint
convenient way : add entry in /etc/fstab, /dev/sda1 /mountpoint fstype... options.... then, you can mount this way $ mount /dev/sda1 or, $ mount /mountpoint more convenient, modern way : udev, hotplug, hald, dbus, gnome-volume-manager(or similiar thing in KDE) ... just plug in USB drive, and that will appear in your desktop(background, places menu, file-manager...) http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Customizing_UDEV#Terminology http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_gnome-volume-manager http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_D-BUS%2C_HAL%2C_KDE_media:/ Hey! don,t hurry relax ~ : ) It's also useful in traditional way $ man mount $ man fstab -- Mait 2006/4/1, Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 3/31/06, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I can just nano /etc/fstab and add /dev/sda1? > > > > Not only you can: you actually have to! :) > > Check the Gentoo handbook for details. When I did install Gentoo (in > > december 2004), I had to write *all* my fstab by hand, I don't know if > > now it's different. > > Well, the automated installer did most of it for me, so I never got > the exposure to it. > > > > I thought fstab was > > > generated by the machine or something, and that it isn't a terribly > > > good idea to edit it. > > > > A fstab file is ususally generated by the operating system installer, > > but, being it a plain text configuration file, it is thought to be > > editable by root. It has a pretty straightforward syntaxis. > > Yeah, didn't take too long for me to figure out how to word what I > wanted. Only a few tries and one reboot (don't ask). > > > The machine-generated thing you shouldn't touch, instead, is /etc/mtab. > > This one contains the *current* state of mounted devices. > > Okay. That makes sense. > > > > I don't have a /mnt directory. Should I just create one? > > > > Well, you have to create an empty directory to use as a mountpoint. I > > create them inside a /mnt directory, but that's just "historical habit". > > Many distro I see around now use /media as a root directory for > > removable media mountpoints. Nothing stops you from using > > /home/sauron/whatever, although I feel symlinks are a cleaner way to > > access mount points from your home... > > I made /mnt/sda1, 'cuz that's what I used about 4 years ago on a Red > Hat Linux box. It was really messing me up with all this /media stuff > when I used Kubuntu. > > > > No, I had to manually create a mount point via the GUI and then enable > > > the thing and all this stuff. Then KDE just looked at /media and > > > slapped that on my desktop. I mounted my windows partition (back when > > > I had one) on /media so that I could have that on my desktop too. > > > > That's the same of writing on the fstab, but managed by a gui instead of > > done by hand (editing fstab is really easy once you manage the logic of it). > > Yeah, I can now see what the GUI did. From my experience with Qt I > can safely say it was harder to make the GUI than to do it by hand. > > -- > ========== GCv3.12 ========== > GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+>++++ P+ > L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ > V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ > DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y > ========= END GCv3.12 ======== > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
