fstab file

[Howard Gibson]

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 19:11:13 -0800 (PST)
Mel Seder <melseder-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> The following line sets up my flash drive for use.  In Fedora CORE 1 I
> right click on my desktop,  go to disks and click on the flash entry
> and a disk icon appears on the desktop for me to write and read from. 
> If I change the noauto to auto would that put it on the desktop for me
> at login time?  I don't want to muck things up.
> 
> /dev/sda1    /mnt/flash              auto    noauto,owner,kudzu,rw 0 0

Mel,

   The noauto line causes Linux to refrain from mounting the device at boot.  As far as I know, it has no other effect.  I got in the habit of systematically adding this to my fstab lines for removable devices when I got sick of Slackware_3 trying to mount my music CDs.  

   Try _not_ adding your flash device to /etc/fstab.  Kudzu automatically detects these things and updates /etc/fstab accordingly.  Nautilus automatically keeps track of the current fstab, and allows you to mount it.

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