Re: FW: Thumbdrive

["Jared L. Black" <jaybee bendcable com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:robertmcclure earthlink net] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 7:26 AM
> To: Jared L. Black
> Subject: Re: Thumbdrive
> 
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:09:43PM -0800, Jared L. Black wrote:
> > I got your response regarding my question about mounting a thumbdrive.
> 
> > Thanks very much.  
> > 
> > I still have a question.  While I can mount the thumbdrive as root, I 
> > have to do the mount as root after each boot (I guess) because the
> fstab 
> > file doesn't have the /dev/sda1 line in it.  Should I just edit the 
> > fstab file by adding the following?
> > 
> > /dev/sda1                /mnt/thumbdrive                    auto
> 
> > noauto, user,kuduz, rw  0  0
> 
> No, for two reasons.
> 
> 1. The existence of the kudzu (not kuduz) option indicates that kudzu
>    (the device detector) made the entry and will remove it when you
>    remove the thumbdrive.
> 
> 2. You could add the entry without "kudzu" and kudzu will leave it
>    alone, but the device assignment is done dynamically, and if you
>    plug in other devices, the thumbdrive may get another assignment.
> 
> BTW, the line above doesn't make any sense because it has both the
> auto and noauto options which are in conflict.  "man mount" for more
> information.
> 
> If that is the only thing you plug in, you could put this line into
> /etc/fstab:
> 
> /dev/sda1        /mnt/thumbdrive         auto,user  rw  0 0
> 
> Change "auto" to "noauto" if you don't want the thumbdrive mounted at
> boot time.
> 
> 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Jared Black
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
> robertmcclure earthlink net  http://www.bobcatos.com
> What if God is asking _us_ for a sign?
> 

Some strange things happen when I edit the fstab file.  I insert the
line as suggested above, but the next time I boot, the mount
/mnt/thumbdrive doesn't work (except for root as it always has).  When I
do a "cat /etc/fstab" the added line for the thumbdrive is missing;
something deletes it.  The original fstab listing is below (with some
spaces removed to avoid wrapping) and it returns to this form after
inserting the line for the thumbdrive and rebooting.

Is there a utility for adding the thumbdrive so that all the modules
that might be offended by manual editing of the fstab file are
satisfied?

LABEL=/             /                ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot         /boot            ext3    defaults        1 2
none                /dev/pts         devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                /proc            proc    defaults        0 0
none                /dev/shm         tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda6           swap             swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/fd0            /mnt/floppy      auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/cdrom          /mnt/cdrom       iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

The added line looked like this but gets deleted on reboot:

/dev/sda1           /mnt/thumbdrive  auto,user rw 0 0

Thanks for any help
J Black