On 13.07.2012 23:15, Pasha R wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Veli-Pekka Kestilä <fedora@xxxxxxxxx> 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. No, there is not such need. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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
