Re: How to mount external usb drive as ext3?

On 31 Jul, 13:19, Davide Bianchi <davideyeahs...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

# grep /media/usbdisk /etc/fstab
/dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk vfat
pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

Yep, remove the 'vfat' and use 'auto' instead.

Thank you for your comments Davide. Your point on mounting manually
certainly works, by I insist on auto-mount.

I changed the entry in /etc/fstab from 'vfat' to 'auto', but it got
overwritten the next time I plugged in the usb hard drive (by hald I
suppose). Now I wonder where hald gets these settings from? I've read
man pages for fstab-sync and browsed the /dev/disk/ directory without
getting any wiser.

Thanks.

--
Serman D.

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