2009/10/13 Andy Campbell <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, > > I have an external eSATA drive, that is connected 90% of the time. > > As its not always attached I can't put in in /etc/fstab - as the OS won't > boot it the device is missing - unless I'm missing some option. > > So I let it get auto mounted, I'm not sure by what mechanism, HAL, > DeviceKit, gnome-mount or some combination of the above F11 has completely > confused me. Plus I seem to need to set filesystem-mount-system-internal > to get it mount if initially plugged in on boot. > > So it all working, except I was looking for ways for setting mount options > i.e noatime, nodiratime. Is it possible ? Some sort of HAL policy ? > > Thanks for any advice > Andy > On my F11-Gnome edition running most of the time in runlevel: 3 I have the following line, for example, for floppy: /dev/floppy /media/floppy auto user,noauto 0 0 I can boot it without floppy inserted - no problems here. I have the same lines for USB-drives and if I plug it after X-server has been started I have the drive auto-mounted. Probably Crag White will give you a better solution. Ah, nearly forgot that! man fstab -- Hiisi. Registered Linux User #487982. Be counted at: http://counter.li.org/ -- Spandex is a privilege, not a right. -- SIP: hiisi@xxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ pub 1024D/085B139A -- Powered by Fedora: http://fedoraproject.org/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
