fixed mountpoint USB disk if present

[Jacob =Jouk Jansen]

Hi all

I have an external usb-disk with 2 partitions. When inserting it, it assigns
"random" mountpoints (i.e. /media/disk and /media/disk-1) to the partions.
I would like to have fixed mount points.
My first try was to edit /etc/fstab and add the 2 partitions. This works
when the usb-disk is present.
But it makes the machine failing to boot if the disk is not present.

How can I perform the mount to a fixed mountpoint only when the disk is
present?

BTW I'm running FC5.


                       Jouk
		       


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