automatically mount removable devices

[Phil Meyer]

Carlo Nyto wrote:
> I have a system with four removable drives (in USB enclosures). I want
> them to be mounted automatically in the same location every time. I
> want this to happen at bootup. I also want this to happen if the
> system is booted without the drives and they are plugged in later,
> regardless of the order.
>
> Is this possible?
>
>   

Udev rules still work ok.

I made a rules file: /etc/udev/rules.d/65-local.rules that contains 
lines like this:

# Western Digital 320GB External
SYSFS{idVendor}=="1058", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0404", SYMLINK+="big%n"

The values for Vendor and Product are the values listed by lsusb.

You will notice that I created a different designator other than sd to 
use.  This allows easier to read /etc/fstab entries.  I name the drives 
and use those names in /etc/fstab.

/dev/big1        /big            ext3    defaults    0 0

As has been mentioned, this is just one way to do it, and there may be a 
'right' way that is quite different.

For my purposes, this works well.

Good Luck!