Re: mounting usb frustration
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On 08/01/07 08:05, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> 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?
You can do it with fixed disks that have decent filesystems, but I
doubt that anything partitioned with vfat would work.
Can't hurt to try, though...
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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