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From: "Lord Sauron" <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive
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On 3/31/06, b.n. <brullonulla@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
Well, the automated installer did most of it for me, so I never got
the exposure to it.
> > 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.
Yeah, didn't take too long for me to figure out how to word what I
wanted. Only a few tries and one reboot (don't ask).
> The machine-generated thing you shouldn't touch, instead, is /etc/mtab.
> This one contains the *current* state of mounted devices.
Okay. That makes sense.
> > 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...
I made /mnt/sda1, 'cuz that's what I used about 4 years ago on a Red
Hat Linux box. It was really messing me up with all this /media stuff
when I used Kubuntu.
> > 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).
Yeah, I can now see what the GUI did. From my experience with Qt I
can safely say it was harder to make the GUI than to do it by hand.
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