Hi Troy, Thaknks, but it is not quite working like you said. I have an ext3 file system on the 3 partitions on this drive, and they are labelled (using tune2fs). When I tried the hotplug test, the system did NOT use my labels for the partitions. Instead it used usbdisk, usbdisk1 usbdisk2. Eve On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Troy Dawson wrote: > Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:25:53 -0600 > From: Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> > To: Eve V. E. Kovacs <[log in to unmask]> > Cc: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: automount usb drives > > Eve V. E. Kovacs wrote: >> Hi, I have a USB drive that I would like to automount at boot and >> whenever it is hotplugged (is this possible?), at a fixed mountpoint. >> >> The current options in the fstab (added by the system when I plugged >> in the drive) are: >> pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed >> >> Is it just as simple as changing the noauto to auto?? >> >> Another behavior I would like to change is that if I hot unplug the drive >> and then hotplug it, the system comments out >> my fstab entries and writes in new ones (as above) with the mountpoints >> at /media/usbdisk1, /media/usbdisk2 etc. >> >> How do I keep the mountpoints that I defined? There is a 'hotplug' mount >> option in Suse linux, but I could not find documentation for it in SL (not >> conclusive since there is no documentation I could find for >> fscontext=system_u object_r removable_t either!) >> >> Can anyone help? >> Thanks, >> Eve >> >> > > Hi Eve, > The easiest way I can think of is to label the file system on your USB drive > filesystem, and remove all mention of it from your fstab. > That might sound a little bizzare, but here is the reason why. > You're USB drive is already being automounted when you plug it in, you are > seeing it yourself. It get's put into the fstab automatically with hotplug. > But, as you said, it is picking a new directory for it to be mounted in each > time. > The formula that hotplug is using to pick a directory name is rather simple. > It's first choice is /media/<FILESYTEM LABEL> > If a file system is not labeled, it then takes guesses, the most common being > usbdrive, so you get /media/usbdrive > > If your usbdrive patition has an ext2/ext3 partition, use e2label to label > it. > > Troy > -- *************************************************************** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room F149, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: [log in to unmask] ***************************************************************