Re: USB ownership

[Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com>]

Paul Cartwright wrote:

> Andrei Popescu wrote:
>> On Mon,20.Oct.08, 17:06:25, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
>>  
>>> I suggested to use device by uuid
>>>
>>> /dev/disk/by-uuid/3fca395b-d75d-44ab-98be-9ec05b2e45fd
>>> /media/usb_2G_part3 auto users,noauto,atime,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
>>  
>> You can shorten this a bit:
>> 
>> UUID=3fca....
>> 
>> It's not much, but given that the UUID is already very long...
>>  
> 
> here is my /etc/fstab entry ( that works)
> UUID=686C-7E81 /media/usb_DAWGS vfat
> users,atime,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid,noauto  0 0
> 
> ( that was all one line)
> 
> in the /media folder is a file called .hal-mtab
> I was trying to add an entry in there for this, so my wife could unmount
> it, but I was not successful. The fstab entry still mounts it:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2008-08-16 15:14 usb_DAWGS
> 
> 

For me the UUID= entry did not work

The /dev/disk/by-uuid work

Paul, the .hal entries are system entries they do not have to be set in
fstab

regards