I wanted to post separately on your continued external disk troubles. Unless you leave external USB resource management to standard hotplug you will continue to have these kind of issues and conflicts.
The only way to workaround with your fstab way would be to do all below: a) mount your USB disk to other place than media, so it is not of the way for normal hotplug schemes b) use uuid instead of /dev/... in fstab. That way it is guaranteed to mount only the right disk/partition to the mount dir from a) Good luck, Tomas On Dec 2, 2017 3:11 PM, "Rich Shepard" <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > I bought a small digital voice recorder which saves files in .wav format. > I found a script to convert from .wav to .mp3, but this device apparently > has a non-standard format (0x0011). > > Another web search found Sound eXchanger (SoX) which will not only change > wav formats but convert among many different types. Unfortunately, the > build > script available at SlackBuilds.org does not compile with mp2 and mp3 > support (I've written the maintainer about this). But, ... > > Until I get sox working to convert from .wav to .mp3 another search > taught > me that the 'play' capability within sox produces sounds from .wav files on > linux. This is an interim solution. Are there other audio format converters > that I might try on these files? > > On a related issue, /var/log/messages shows that the recorder is seen as > the SCSI disk /dev/sdb. I have an entry in /etc/fstab for my 3T external > hard drive (ext3 file system) which the kernel sees as /dev/sdb assigned to > /mnt/hd/. Root can mount the vfat file system recorder on /mnt/hd/; can two > devices (with different file systems) be listed in /etc/fstab to be mounted > on the same mount point? > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
