I have some problems with a Fujitsu Firebird external storage device (USB 2.0) and SuSE 9.0.
What I want to achieve is basically this: the Firebird should be automatically detected when it's plugged in and mounted in read-write-mode.
Certain configuration files, e.g. templates for OpenOffice, are stored on this drive and should be available whenever a program requests them.
SuSE automatically adds the following line to /etc/fstab
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 auto sync,noauto,user,exec 0 0 #HOTPLUG B3Fu.tCImYzxjhXA
Two problems:
1.) The Firebird gets automatically mounted most of the time, but not always, and I can't find a reason why.
There may be some correlation with the external power supply, i.e. when it's not plugged in, the drive doesn't get mounted and when it is plugged in, it does, but I'm not completely sure.
In addition, sometimes the drive gets mounted in read-only mode, sometimes in read-write mode.
I have tried adding the following line to /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1 /home/kellner/usb auto auto,user,rw 0 0
But the same irregularities apply to this one, plus, no matter how often I delete the line automatically added by SuSE, it just gets added again.
2.) Even if the drive is mounted, it is not yet automatically available to programs like OpenOffice: OpenOffice recognises the drive only after I browse it with Konqueror.
I've also tried just adding a symbolical link, but this is faced with the same issues.
Any help will be greatly appreciated,
Birgit Kellner
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