I have a question about hotplugging & USB and some differences I see
between 2 different FC3 systems (home & work).
**** Home
Initially, I configured my drive at home. I did NOT have the menu
item:
Preferences -> Removable Storage
set to "Mount removable drives when hot-plugged". Without realizing
that this was an option, I used manual entries in fstab:
# usb drive
LABEL=usblinux /mnt/usb/linux auto defaults,user 0 0
/dev/sde2 /mnt/usb/windows auto defaults,user 0 0
/dev/sde1 /mnt/usb/camera auto defaults,user 0 0
This worked well & good. I was happy to be able to mount the
partitions as a user. Note that the linux partition has a label
"usblinux".
Then, I moved the drive to my work machine.
**** Work
I plugged the drive in and was surprised to find that both partitions
automatically mounted in /media:
/media/usbdisk
/media/usblinux
I also saw that entries were added to /etc/fstab, reflecting the mount
points and device names.
I recognized this as better action.
Returning home...
**** Home
Plugging the drive in, I confirmed that nothing was happening in
/media. I found the entry to automount the drive in:
Preferences -> Removable Storage
and enabled it. I unplugged and plugged the drive, and it mounted
with this from df:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
<snip>
/dev/sde1 72801276 1704196 67398920 3% /mnt/usb/camera
/dev/sde2 4176756 96 4176660 1% /mnt/usb/windows
This is not what I wanted. It used my fstab entries, and it picked
the "camera" entry over the labeled entry.
OK, so I deleted the fstab entries & tried again. This time nothing
mounted.
**** What I'd like to happen.
1. Mount when plugged in.
2. Don't specify the device -- after all, some other (new) usb device
could disturb the device name.
How do I get there?
TIA,
Bill
