Hi, Make an entry in /etc/fstab so that while bootup the disk drive will be mounted automatically. By default root file system will be there in /etc/fstab. Similarly do it for the new ext3 partition. Thanks, Krishnaprasad -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Scully Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:22 PM To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list' Subject: USB drives Greetings: I have been using various USB-connected hard drives, by deleting the factory NTFS partitions and creating ext3 partitions on them instead. I use these for layered backups of my key application directory, with storage for every night's snapshot for years at a time. But I'm never quite sure how to keep the drives mounted at reboot, unless I manually create a mount point and mount command in rc.local. I can always see the drive shown in the Gnome desktop's "Computer" folder. Clicking on it will mount it immediately, using /media/mydrivelabel (from the label I assigned the drive using e2label). But the mount point is dynamically created and removed from hotplug events. Is there a way to configure this to automount at boot time, but use the hotplug conventions? In the event someone unplugs it by accident and then plugs it back in, I want it to end up mounted consistently, so my backup scripts always find it. For that matter, since a hotplug event always handles things correctly, is there a reason that system boot DOESN'T do the same actions? My platforms these days are RHEL 5 on Intel. Scully -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
