** Reply to message from Patrick Marquetecken <patrick.marquetecken@pandora.be> on Thu, 02 Jan 2003 09:43:21 +0100 > Hi, > I use a USB-stick for sensitive data on my laptop. > So in /etc/fstab i placed a line: > /dev/sda /mnt/usb ext3 > when my laptop boot i get a error: > mount: /dev/sda is not a valid block device > but at the end of the boot process the stick is mounted anyway. Is there > a way to do it better. One can only mount partitions, not devices. /dev/sda is the first scsi device. To find what partitions are on the device, run "fdisk /dev/sda" as root and then issue the "p" command to print the partition table. I imagine it would be /dev/sda1. Get out of fdisk by issuing "q" command. Then edit your /etc/fstab entry to /dev/sda1 rather than /dev/sda jb -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
