[gentoo-user] automount on the CLI

[gentoo-user] automount on the CLI

[Mick]

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Hi All,

I've looked around for an explanation, but I have failed to find enough to 
help me understand.  Would you care to explain or point me to some relevant 
links.  How is one meant to mount a USB stick when on a console?

A long time ago I created relevant entries in my fstab, because back then 
automounting was quite involved and a tad unstable.  I have still some 
entries like:

# Flash Card
/dev/sda    /mnt/sda    auto,vfat,msdos noauto,user,noatime     0 0
/dev/sda1    /mnt/sda1    auto,vfat,msdos noauto,user,noatime     0 0
to be able to mount USB pen drives manually.  However, because of these fstab 
entries when I automount them using a GUI (Konqueror), they are mounted 
under /mnt/sda not under /media/disk.

What options do I have?
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] automount on the CLI

[Dale]

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Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:15:28 +0000, Mick wrote:
>
>   
>> I've looked around for an explanation, but I have failed to find enough
>> to help me understand.  Would you care to explain or point me to some
>> relevant links.  How is one meant to mount a USB stick when on a
>> console?
>>
>> A long time ago I created relevant entries in my fstab, because back
>> then automounting was quite involved and a tad unstable.  I have still
>> some entries like:
>>
>> # Flash Card
>> /dev/sda    /mnt/sda    auto,vfat,msdos noauto,user,noatime     0 0
>> /dev/sda1    /mnt/sda1    auto,vfat,msdos noauto,user,noatime     0 0
>> to be able to mount USB pen drives manually.  However, because of these
>> fstab entries when I automount them using a GUI (Konqueror), they are
>> mounted under /mnt/sda not under /media/disk.
>>     
>
> Remove the entries from /etc/fstab, then KDE will automount them
> under /media/<volume name>. To mount manually from a terminal or console,
> use "pmount /dev/sda1", you don't need to be root to do this, to have the
> device mounted in the same place as with KDE.
>
>
>   

Isn't there another way that mounts automatically?  Mine used to do that
and I think it was ivman.  I noticed it doesn't do that any more
though.  I don't have ivman installed so that may explain that.  I seem
to recall a clash with the new KDE and ivman or something.

Dale

:-)  :-)  :-)



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Re: [gentoo-user] automount on the CLI

[Mick]

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On Friday 23 February 2007 00:49, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:15:28 +0000, Mick wrote:
> > I've looked around for an explanation, but I have failed to find enough
> > to help me understand.  Would you care to explain or point me to some
> > relevant links.  How is one meant to mount a USB stick when on a
> > console?
> >
> > A long time ago I created relevant entries in my fstab, because back
> > then automounting was quite involved and a tad unstable.  I have still
> > some entries like:
> >
> > # Flash Card
> > /dev/sda    /mnt/sda    auto,vfat,msdos noauto,user,noatime     0 0
> > /dev/sda1    /mnt/sda1    auto,vfat,msdos noauto,user,noatime     0 0
> > to be able to mount USB pen drives manually.  However, because of these
> > fstab entries when I automount them using a GUI (Konqueror), they are
> > mounted under /mnt/sda not under /media/disk.
>
> Remove the entries from /etc/fstab, then KDE will automount them
> under /media/<volume name>. To mount manually from a terminal or console,
> use "pmount /dev/sda1", you don't need to be root to do this, to have the
> device mounted in the same place as with KDE.

Ahh! man pmount, I forgot about this command . . .

Thank you very much.  Just what I was looking for.

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Regards,
Mick

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