[KLUG Members] mounting removable devices

[Mike Williams]

I think I finally found a clean way around the problem of removable
devices and their mountpoints.  I have a USB thumbdrive and an external
ieee1394 hard drive that sometimes don't mount properly.  I had some
success using the LABEL flag in fstab (they're both FAT32 filesystem),
and it sort of worked, but umount wouldn't unmount it as a regular
user.  It would give me an error that /etc/mtab disagreed with
/etc/fstab or some such.  A better way is to mount it as the proper
entry in /dev/disk/by-id.  Aside from a really ugly-looking fstab file
(/dev/disk/by-id/ieee1394-0010100300061861:0:0-part1 is much more
cumbersome than /dev/sdc1), it seems to work fine.