Configuring Fedora Core 4 & USB Flash drives?

[Tim]

On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 08:55 -0800, tlhackque wrote:
> OK, here's fstab.  Vanilla - untouched by human hands.  This IS with
> the drive in & (manually) mounted.  So fstab-sync isn't making a
> "managed" entry for some reason.
>
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /                       ext3   defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3   defaults        1 2
> none                    /dev/pts                devpts gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs  defaults        0 0
> none                    /proc                   proc   defaults        0 0
> none                    /sys                    sysfs  defaults        0 0
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                    swap   defaults        0 0
> /dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
> /dev/hdc                /media/cdrecorder       auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
> /dev/hda                /media/cdrom            auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

No sign of an entry for the drive, so I guess by "manually mounted",
you're typing in commands in the CLI, rather than referring to details
you've written into the fstab file.

For automounting, it's going to be dependent on one or more services
(haldaemon, at least).

> Not clear how to make an entry, as drives seem to get
> different sd? names assigned.  Wouldn't mind the blue drive always
> being a certain mount point.  Of course, some are vfat, some aren't -
> so "auto" would be the fstype of choice.
> 
> Doesn't matter if the mount point exists or not. 
> 
> So is the "USB Flash Driver" in your rule a generic answer for all USB
> Flash devices, or is it a function of the specific
> model/mfgr that one plugs in?

It's discovered from my drive, others *may* be the same.  I used a tool
to query the information present in my drive (see the page I referred
you to, before):  <http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html>

There are other "usbview" tools which can show you such information.

> Looking at the reference material - wow!  Infinitely flexible, but all
> I wanted was to just plug in my drive and have it work.  Looks like I
> have a lot of digging to do (and yet another scriping language to
> learn.) 

Yes, I thought the same.  I left things as they were, manually
configured, until I was given a USB drive for Christmas, then had to
face the problem of correctly/sensibly mounting the USB flash drive and
my digital camera at the same time.

I have two identical motherboards, with nearly the same FC4 installation
on each, they both auto-mount, but don't behave the same way.  On one,
the USB drive's activity lead pulses regularly, all of the time (whether
mounted or not), on the other, it only blinks when I expect it to (when
I know there's drive activity).

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