On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Veli-Pekka Kestilä <fed...@guagua.fi> wrote: > On 13.7.2012 23:39, Rick Stevens wrote: >> >> On 07/13/2012 01:25 PM, Pasha R issued this missive:: >>> >>> F17 introduced a change to how external drives are mounted. They are >>> mounted now exclusively to a logged on user. This is somewhat >>> inconvenient, because iso images stored on external drive is now >>> inaccessible to virtual machines. Is it possible to make drives >>> accessible to everyone? >> >> >> Add the mount to /etc/fstab and make sure the "auto" option is included. >> Something like: >> >> /path/to/device /mountpoint ext4 defaults,auto 0 0 >> > I would use UUID as the device identifier so that if device name changes it > will still mount it correctly. > > blkid /dev/sda1 will get you the uuid and then add: > > UUID=YOUR-UID /mountpoint ext4 defaults,auto 0 0 >
If I understand correctly, this implies that device should be available at boot time, which is not always the case, since it is external USB drive. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
