Prob the automounter... There should be a dir /mnt/auto? I know knoppix uses that a lot -----Original Message----- From: Gregory Avedissian [mailto:gma2004@verizon.net] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 12:32 PM To: Worcester Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [Wlug] mounting a pen drive (usb) SuSE 9.1 will automatically mount and unmount a pen drive, floppy disk or cd. I haven't yet figured out how it does that. Greg Ryan Caron wrote:

Assuming you do not have any other usb devices hooked up to your laptop, adding the following line to your /etc/fstab will allow you to mount and use your pen drive as a non-root user:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat user,noauto,exec 0 0

Using this method, you will have to type "mount /mnt/sda1" when you insert it and "umount /mnt/sda1" when you are done.

I cannot stress how important it is to unmount! Failure to do so will either leave your pen drive without the changes you made or with data corruption (I know this from experience)

If anybody knows of a way for linux to mount automatically do this I am all ears (switching the noauto parameter to auto doesn't do the trick).

Sincerely, Ryan Caron

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Message: 7 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:55:05 -0400 From: Walt Sawyer <wsawyer@norfolk-county.com> Subject: [Wlug] mountng a pen drive (usb) To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug@mail.wlug.org> Message-ID: <1097762105.2591.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain

How do I get my SanDisk cruzer mini 256 mb pen drive to mount on my Fedora Core 2 laptop? Thanks in advance Walt

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