Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:30:47 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:

>> Camaleón wrote:
> 
> 
>>>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".
> 
>   Well Label didn't work in my case either - I gave the USB drive a
>   label
> of Music...then changed fstab to the LABEL=Music from /dev/sda1
> 
> The drive did not get mounted and I had to go back to /dev/sda1
> 
> But as long as /dev/sda1 is used, there is no fsck of the drive.

You should not list your devices in fstab if you want to make use of your 
DE hotplug capabilities.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón