Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

["b.n." <brullonulla@gmail.com>]

> I can just nano /etc/fstab and add /dev/sda1?  

Not only you can: you actually have to! :)
Check the Gentoo handbook for details. When I did install Gentoo (in 
december 2004), I had to write *all* my fstab by hand, I don't know if 
now it's different.

> I thought fstab was
> generated by the machine or something, and that it isn't a terribly
> good idea to edit it.

A fstab file is ususally generated by the operating system installer, 
but, being it a plain text configuration file, it is thought to be 
editable by root. It has a pretty straightforward syntaxis.

The machine-generated thing you shouldn't touch, instead, is /etc/mtab. 
This one contains the *current* state of mounted devices.

> I don't have a /mnt directory.  Should I just create one?

Well, you have to create an empty directory to use as a mountpoint. I 
create them inside a /mnt directory, but that's just "historical habit". 
Many distro I see around now use /media as a root directory for 
removable media mountpoints. Nothing stops you from using 
/home/sauron/whatever, although I feel symlinks are a cleaner way to 
access mount points from your home...

> No, I had to manually create a mount point via the GUI and then enable
> the thing and all this stuff.  Then KDE just looked at /media and
> slapped that on my desktop.  I mounted my windows partition (back when
> I had one) on /media so that I could have that on my desktop too.

That's the same of writing on the fstab, but managed by a gui instead of 
done by hand (editing fstab is really easy once you manage the logic of it).

m.
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