On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 14:07, Colin Charles wrote: > Don't know if we can make this of use in the Docs Project, but it might > be handy [...snip...] > In thanks, I wrote a simple and to the point How-To for using autofs to > mount a USB memory key on a Fedora Core 2 system. The How-To is > available here: > > http://www.systemsaligned.com/learn/howto/hwtusbkey > > I have noticed other How-To's out there about this very same subject, or > close to it. They are helpful too, but I wanted to write a How-To as > well with my own little slant to it. I know from experience that the > more there is written about an open source tool, the easier it has been > for me to get new things working. You can never have enough > documentation, tips and tricks, eh? I got about halfway there in my updfstab-tutorial for FDP (at http://docs.frields.org if anyone cares), but there's two things I need to add: 1. from Tim's document, the section on checking USB device ID's in the distmap 2. Add the fact that if you run updfstab [-t] as root, there's no need to do any logging in, etc. The only problem that I've seen in Fedora Core (both 1 and 2) is that the usb-storage module doesn't go away fast enough to accommodate removal and reinsertion of the device after only a minute or two. I haven't spent much time looking at that problem, but if someone wants to offer a solution (off-list please!) feel free. The author using autofs is actually taking kind of the long way around, I think. After I update my updfstab-tutorial I will e-mail a link to him. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE
