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.
Many of us on this list suffer from literalism, meaning we think what you said
is what you meant. Had you said "removable" rather than "external" it might have
helped people understand your problem.
In any case, for extN filesystems if you provide a label (tune2fs if you didn't
create one) it seems to get mounted on /media/label nicely. Don't know for sure
about MS filesystems, but given that my new USB drives always have the same name
no matter where I plug them in, I suspect the ugly string is a label of some
kind, and you could use that, perhaps even change it to something you like better.
Once you get it mounted in the same place every time, you can use symlinks if
you don't like the name.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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