Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:15:28 +0000, Mick wrote: > > >> I've looked around for an explanation, but I have failed to find enough >> to help me understand. Would you care to explain or point me to some >> relevant links. How is one meant to mount a USB stick when on a >> console? >> >> A long time ago I created relevant entries in my fstab, because back >> then automounting was quite involved and a tad unstable. I have still >> some entries like: >> >> # Flash Card >> /dev/sda /mnt/sda auto,vfat,msdos noauto,user,noatime 0 0 >> /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto,vfat,msdos noauto,user,noatime 0 0 >> to be able to mount USB pen drives manually. However, because of these >> fstab entries when I automount them using a GUI (Konqueror), they are >> mounted under /mnt/sda not under /media/disk. >> > > Remove the entries from /etc/fstab, then KDE will automount them > under /media/<volume name>. To mount manually from a terminal or console, > use "pmount /dev/sda1", you don't need to be root to do this, to have the > device mounted in the same place as with KDE. > > >
Isn't there another way that mounts automatically? Mine used to do that and I think it was ivman. I noticed it doesn't do that any more though. I don't have ivman installed so that may explain that. I seem to recall a clash with the new KDE and ivman or something. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967
