On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 00:57, toughguy wrote: > I've got a USB keychain-drive, and a 120GB external firewire drive with 4 > partitions. I want to make mounting them simple, so my wife can use the > computer too, and so I don't have to think to do routine tasks like these. > All partitions are of type msdos, so I can't (apearantly) use > LABEL="mylabel" with them in fstab. The problem is, since they're external > drives, where they show up changes depending on what's already mounted. IE. > Whatever drive I mount first gets /dev/sda*, and the second one gets > /dev/sdb*. I'd like to always mount the same partitions to the same folder > in /mnt, no matter if it were designated sdb or sda. > Is there a (fairly simple) way to do this?
In theory, updfstab is supposed to be able to do this, although I haven't had much luck. What I have done, though, is write a script that checks /proc/partitions to see if the partition signature of my external drive is there and if so sets up the proper fstab entries (using the device paths handily reported by /proc/partition). I think the process can even be automated by hacking /etc/hotplug/ieee1394.agent to run the script automatically when it detects the firewire drive. If your external disk is USB, there is a chance you can set up entries in /etc/updfstab.conf.defaults and it would work, since I know updfstab does scan the usb-storage devices. Now if I could just fix that stupid problem where fam won't let go of the device. It's so annoying. I've tried doing a umount -l for a lazy unmount which works, but I corrupted my usb pen drive doing that. Michael > When my wife uses the computer, it'll already be in X, with Fluxbox, so I > don't even _need_ to have them in fstab, since the fluxbox menu just runs > whatever command designated. > > Thanks! > > ~Michael Moroe > > > > Visit www.elementsbycaroline.com for great photography deals! > We do weddings, engagments, and bridal portraits. > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
