Osamu Aoki wrote, on 2009-03-02 01:25:
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:56:12PM +0100, Robert Latest wrote:Hello people, the subject says it all. I (often, but not always) have a portable USB disk connected to the computer that I would like to have automounted on boot. I could just knit some init script for this task, but before I do that I'd like to check if there is a "canonical Debian way" to achieve it.I do not know if it is "canonical Debian way" or not ... but there are few ways. Do you use modern desktop? Gnome, KDE, ... then it automounts. If non X system, just add it to /etc/fstab Osamu
It didn't work for me in KDE 3.5.10 (running Debian unstable here). I might have the wrong packages installed.
What I did was identify the 2 usbdrives I own and set up mount points for them and put the following in /etc/fstab:
# line for first drive/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Verbatim_STORE_N_GO_078A18B40293-0:0-part1 /mnt/usbdrive vfat defaults,users,uid=65534,gid=65534,umask=000 0 2
# line for second drive/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Flash_Drive_AU_USB2.0_OGUN4WMN-0:0 /mnt/usb8gig vfat defaults,users,uid=65534,gid=65534,umask=000,shortname=win95 0 2
"shortname=win95" was needed to enable me to create a dvd directory tree on the second drive - the joys of case-sensitive versus case insensitive systems. The "defaults" word is only needed if there are no other entries in that field of /etc/fstab.
Arthur.