USB drives

[Jeff Hogg]

Michael Scully wrote:
> Krishnaprasad:
> 
> 	Actually no, it fails because the mount point isn't there.  So I
> assume the hotplug events do something to create the directory first, mount
> to it, and delete it on umount.  I guess I'm wondering how to do the same,
> for consistency.
> 
> Scully
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Krishnaprasad_K at Dell.com
> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:39 AM
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Subject: RE: USB drives
> 
> Ur syntax seems to be correct. When you execute mount /dev/sdb1
> /media/usbfixedhd manually it works right?
> 
> For more info about fstab, please see the below link
> 
> 	http://www.humbug.org.au/talks/fstab/fstab.html
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Krishnaprasad
> 
Hey Scully,


   It sounds like you could write a pair of short bash scripts to handle 
this.  You could then place them in the start up and shutdown routines 
that are part of the runlevels.  You can see several examples of such 
scripts in the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory.  Just have the start up 
version create the directory and mount the drive, and the shutdown 
version umount and delete the directory.  Hope this helps.

-- 
Jeff Hogg
System Admin.
TSG Consultants