Automount ThumbDrives in fc6

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Mon Dec 11 11:51:36 UTC 2006


Reg Clemens wrote:
> I know this has been discussed previously, so if someone can point me back
> at that discussion (or summarize what was there) I would appreciate it.
> 
> But, How does one go about getting thumbdrives automounted under fc6?
> I seem to remember something about labeling the (vfat) file system with
> a label utility under windows, but thats all I remember.
> 
> I am moving all my users to fc6, and suddenly its important.

All I had to do to get the drives to mount with a name was to label the 
thumb drives under windows. The volume name was mounted automatically 
under /media/volume-name. Similarly, labeling the ext3 using e2label 
allowed the ext3 volume to show up under /media/volume-label.

Jim

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