[PLUG] Novice question - mounting USB Drive

Terry Griffin griffint at pobox.com
Fri Dec 31 23:50:27 UTC 2004


On Friday 31 December 2004 10:54 am, Jack Morgan wrote:
> 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?
>
>
Yes, it does.



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