[PLUG] Novice question - mounting USB Drive

Jack Morgan jack at bonyari.com
Fri Dec 31 18:54:13 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 09:49 -0800, Terry Griffin wrote:
> What distro are you using? Some of the newer 2.6-based distros that use
> the HAL deamon are fairly automated with respect to USB devices. FC3 will
> automatically create a mount point (/media/usbdisk) and add an entry to
> /etc/fstab when a USB flash drive is plugged in. Then all you have to do
> is "mount /media/usbdisk". You should "umount /media/usbdisk" before removing 
> the flash drive.

So will FC3 remove the /etc/fstab entry once the USB device is removed?

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Jack Morgan 




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