On 14.07.2012 01:58, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 07/13/2012 02:37 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz issued this missive:: >> 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. > > Actually, there is. Pasha is right in that it'll work if the drive is > plugged in at boot time as the mounting of items in /etc/fstab is done > at boot. In reality, plug/unplug of devices is geared towards a > workstation (which is why Fedora behaves the way it does). Pasha's > thing is more what you'd expect in a server-oriented environment which > is why I suggested what I did. > Sorry but I checked that and I can't agree with you. I added following line to /etc/fstab: UUID="25da1476-a0a4-4b87-8afb-8f0ddb128b18" /mnt ext4 defaults 0 0 The uuid is of my flash card (removable storage). Then when I plugged in the card, it hasn't been mounted automatically. I had to issued: mount /mnt and umount /mnt manually. This is exactly what I was talking about. It works in Fedora 17. So you can mount shared storage not only at boot time. /etc/fstab is not only proceeded at boot time! Mateusz Marzantowicz -- 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
