On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 02:48:18PM -0400, John Burton wrote: > Greetings! > 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: > > 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? Other folks have given you several pointers, so I won't duplicate them. A warning, though. Auto-mount or not, make sure you umount them before you pull the drive, lest you have file system corruption! I've found that one way to remind users to umount drives is to require them to manually mount them. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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