Hi Eve, I sorta thought someone would have replied to this by now. I'm not totally sure. Everytime I try to tweak with hotplug I only end up messing it up, so I'm out of suggestions. You've double checked that the label is there? Troy Eve V. E. Kovacs wrote: > 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 >> > -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group __________________________________________________