Re: fstab entries for two different pendrives?
On Saturday 26 August 2006 11:56, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> I have the following problem:
>> yesterday I bought a new 256 MB pendrive, that wants to be mounted
>> as `/dev/sda' whereas the other one I have wants `/dev/sda1'.
>> Now, if in /etc/fstab I put the sda entry first, then can't mount sda1;
>> and vice versa, if I put sda1 first then I can't mount sda.
Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl> writes:
> If you install the "pmount" package and add your user to the "plugdev"
> group then you will not need fstab entries for pluggable devices anymore.
> (You should then just comment these entries out or remove them
> entirely.) Devices will be mounted at the correct mount point
> automatically. Even better, if you use the "pmount-hal" command then the
> devices will be mounted by their volume label so that you can address
> each medium unambiguously and independent of the order in which you
> attached them. This is also fully integrated in e.g. KDE and Gnome.
Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> writes:
> Use udev to recognise the pendrive from its manufactures name, and create a
> symlink (or actual device) called /dev/flash. Mount that in /etc/fstab
>
> [...]
>
Thanks to Florian and Alan.
I forgot to say that my kernel is the 2.4, so udev is not for me - is it?
Then I'll turn on Florian's suggestion, unless there's some other remedy
that avoid installing special packages like pmount.
fstab alone should be sufficient to mount any device.
I'd like to understand *why* it can't manage two sd* devices together,
or what's the proper way to make it do.
Can anybody explain that?
Cheers,
Rodolfo
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