[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: mounting usb frustration



On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:37:52PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 07/30/07 20:13, Carl Fink wrote:
> > USB detection has been broken on Debian for years, literally.  It works fine
> > for me with removable drives, but my Testing system will detect my Palm
> > device once -- and never again, until I reboot.  Then I can sync once more.
> 
> It always works perfectly for me plugging thumb drives and a digital
> camera.
> 
> I've taken to using UUIDs for permanent mount points, since pmount
> seems to bypass udev.  And udev is (was?) in such flux and the rules
> changed on me.
> 
> Here's a snippet from my /etc/fstab:
> 
> UUID="c207a86c-91ac-4733-9760-93b0389e193d" /media/backup \
>          ext3,ext2 defaults,noauto  0  2

For a shorter fstab entry, can you label a digital camera and then use
LABEL="camera" instead?

Doug.



Reply to: