USB drives

[Krishnaprasad_K at Dell.com]

Hi,

	Make an entry in /etc/fstab so that while bootup the disk drive
will be mounted automatically. By default root file system will be there
in /etc/fstab. Similarly do it for the new ext3 partition.

Thanks,
Krishnaprasad

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michael Scully
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:22 PM
To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
Subject: USB drives

Greetings:

	I have been using various USB-connected hard drives, by deleting
the
factory NTFS partitions and creating ext3 partitions on them instead.  I
use
these for layered backups of my key application directory, with storage
for
every night's snapshot for years at a time.  But I'm never quite sure
how to
keep the drives mounted at reboot, unless I manually create a mount
point
and mount command in rc.local.

	I can always see the drive shown in the Gnome desktop's
"Computer"
folder.  Clicking on it will mount it immediately, using
/media/mydrivelabel
(from the label I assigned the drive using e2label).  But the mount
point is
dynamically created and removed from hotplug events.  Is there a way to
configure this to automount at boot time, but use the hotplug
conventions?
In the event someone unplugs it by accident and then plugs it back in, I
want it to end up mounted consistently, so my backup scripts always find
it.

	For that matter, since a hotplug event always handles things
correctly, is there a reason that system boot DOESN'T do the same
actions?

	My platforms these days are RHEL 5 on Intel.

Scully

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