Check out automount and fstab. Kim On Thu, 2004-28-10 at 14:48 -0400, John Burton wrote: > Greetings! > > First off, FC3-RC1 (yum updated 10/28/04) looks pretty good so far. A > couple of minor glitches, but nothing too bad. On problem I'm having & > don't know quite how to proceed... > > I have a 1.5GB USB drive (looks like an old cigarette lighter). It has 2 > partitions, both formatted as VFAT - have to communicate with Windows > systems. The partitions were created under WindowsXP and have the labels > "Common" & Backup" I plug it in to a USB port and it's recognized: > > > > Oct 28 14:04:35 traveler kernel: usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using address 3 > > Oct 28 14:04:36 traveler kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized > > Oct 28 14:04:36 traveler kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... > > Oct 28 14:04:36 traveler kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices > > Oct 28 14:04:36 traveler kernel: Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: MK6021GAS Rev: GA02 > > Oct 28 14:04:37 traveler kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > > Oct 28 14:04:37 traveler kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage > > Oct 28 14:04:37 traveler kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. > > Oct 28 14:04:37 traveler scsi.agent[3950]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-5/1-5:1.0/host0/0:0:0:0 > > Oct 28 14:04:37 traveler kernel: SCSI device sda: 117210240 512-byte hdwr sectors (60012 MB) > > Oct 28 14:04:37 traveler kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through > > Oct 28 14:04:37 traveler udev[3998]: creating device node '/dev/sda' > > Oct 28 14:04:37 traveler 05-pam_console.dev[3999]: Restoring console permissions for /dev/sda > > Oct 28 14:04:37 traveler kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 > > Oct 28 14:04:38 traveler kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > > Oct 28 14:04:38 traveler udev[4014]: creating device node '/dev/sda1' > > Oct 28 14:04:38 traveler udev[4021]: creating device node '/dev/sda2' > > Then it creates two mount points > > > > Oct 28 14:04:38 traveler fstab-sync[4039]: added mount point /media/COMMON for /dev/sda1 > > Oct 28 14:04:38 traveler fstab-sync[4043]: added mount point /media/BACKUP for /dev/sda2 > > > > But it does not mount them. I can manually mount them by doing a > "mount /dev/sda1 /media/COMMON". > > Now, the question. What do I have to do to have the USB drive/partitions > mounted automatically? > > Thoughts? Suggestions? > > John > -- Kim Lux (Mr.) <lux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>