On Tuesday 26 December 2006 16:39, Robert Spangler wrote:
> On Tue December 26 2006 15:36, Kevan Benson wrote:
> > > > Is there any good how-to's for getting a usb memory stick to auto
> > > > mount when it is connected to the usb port? Or is this to happen
> > > > automatically? I got a 2G memory stick for Christmas so that I can
> > > > transfer files from machine to machine (home/work) but it doesn't
> > > > look like it mounts automatically like the cdrom does. Thnx for
> > > > your input.
> > >
> > > Looking at this page it states that it should but I'm not seeing it,
> > > now I'm wondering what I did/am doing wrong.
> > >
> > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/step-guide
> > >/s 1-d isks-usb.html
> >
> > It usually works for me exactly as stated in the link you sent. I
> > insert a USB drive device, it creates the /media/DEVICE_TYPE directory
> > (and the appropriate fstab entry), and it's up to me or the file manager
> > to actually run the mount command (mount /media/DEVICE_TYPE) to make it
> > accessible in the directory.
>
> Nope. Not here. Nothing is added to fstab. I can manually mount it but I
> would think that this should happen automaticly.
Try tailing /var/log/messages while inserting the device. It might yield
information as to why it's not working. It generally states which device has
been assigned as the USB device /dev/sdX and other various hotplug messages.
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- Kevan Benson
- A-1 Networks
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