[KLUG Members] mounting removable devices

[Bruce Damkoehler]

Is it consistent from machine to machine? Have you tried it on different 
distros?

I will certainly give it a try.

How did you find out about it?



Mike Williams wrote:
> 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.
>
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