On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Mateusz Marzantowicz <mmarzantowicz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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! > This is less convenient than in older Fedora versions. I have several removable drives and also some thumb drives, which I also prefer to mount system-wide accessible. Now I have to add them all to fstab and also mount manually. I wonder what was a purpose of the change. Was it for multi-seat support? -- 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
