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Re: USB stick no longer automounting at boot



On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:36:28 +0100, Russell Gadd wrote:

> I have today set up a new installation of Linux Mint and it is
> exhibiting the same symptoms as my installation of Squeeze as follows -
> I have a USB stick permanently plugged in (for backup purposes) and when
> the system boots the stick is not mounted. When I first installed it
> mounted ok and I could see it on the desktop, but now I have to
> physically unplug and replug the stick to get the system to mount it. I
> think this behaviour may have occurred after I installed a trial version
> of NOD32 antivirus for Linux (on both systems), but I'm not certain. I
> stopped NOD32 from starting at boot but this doesn't make any
> difference, so I don't know if that is the cause or maybe some other
> software update. Any ideas would be welcome.

(...)

If the USB key is always attached to your computer I would make a static 
mount point under "/etc/fstab".

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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