Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:08:57 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:59:13 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón wrote:
>> Question is, do you really need "those" devices (flash drives and MC/SD
>> memory cards) to be present in "fstab"? That is, do you need static
>> mount points for that kind of devices?
>>
>> USB hard drives make sense, but for media cards I'd better let hotplug
>> subsystem auto-manages them.
>
>
> In my particular case, yes. I like to know beforehand where they
> are mounted. AFAIK hotplug or its successor mounts them where it wants
> to ?
Mmm... I think "LABEL" would take precedence over another mount option
(UUID, ID or PATH) so if you "tag" your media device with a LABEL, it
should be mounted when plugged under "/media/mylabel".
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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