Hi,
  I'm wondering what I need to read about and do to get a USB drive
to auto-mount reliably at boot time? I don't know anything about udev
so I tried what I thought used to work in my /etc/fstab file but it
doesn't work. The drive mounts by hand just fine:

MacMini linux # cat /etc/fstab | grep video
/dev/sda1               /video          ext3            auto,rw         0 2
MacMini linux # df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda4             75890040  60601600  11433376  85% /
udev                     10240       164     10076   2% /dev
shm                     257396         0    257396   0% /dev/shm
MacMini linux # mount /dev/sda1 /video
MacMini linux # df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda4             75890040  60601604  11433372  85% /
udev                     10240       164     10076   2% /dev
shm                     257396         0    257396   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1            157566568    192068 149370520   1% /video
MacMini linux #

  Must I use udev (and if so how - what do I study to make this work)
or can I do this in fstab and I've just forgotten something simple?

  Also, what's the feeling these days about the reliability of
automounting by device? Would I be better to use e2label on the
partition?

Thanks in advance,
Mark