Re: volume mgmt w/o gnome

On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 18:29:31 -0800
"Kelly Clowers" <kelly.clowers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Dec 1, 2007 6:03 PM, Mark Grieveson <dg135@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If it is mass-storage, you just mount it with a command like "mount
-t auto /dev/sda1 /media/usb" (mount point and device might be
different). Or you can put a line in /etc/fstab :

/dev/sda1 /media/usb auto noauto,users 0 0

Then you could just say "mount /media/usb".

Thanks for the response. when I try this, it tells me:

mount: you must specify the filesystem type


I think hal also does that. It's working on my xfce with thunar file manager,
no gnome. You probably need a file/desktop manager that can get hal
notifications though (it's either that or dbus, if you know which package does
this you can probably look into it's dependencies)

Auto should work, but the FS should be vfat, so -

stand alone command:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/usb
(-t means type; again, paths may be different)

or in fstab:
/dev/sda1/ /media/usb vfat noauto,users 0 0

...and then:
mount /media/usb

You can get more info with "man mount" and "man fstab"


Cheers,
Kelly




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