Re: How to automatically mount usb drive?

Fred wrote:
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:49:56 -0400, Matt Giwer wrote:
http://www.giwersworld.org/computers/linux/usb-drives.phtml
Works for me for four of them.
As for a manual mount
mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb
is sufficient. I presume it works the same for -t vfat.

This web page does not even mention autofs or automount.
I know how to mount any device I need to -- I just want
to automate the process.

Are you saying they do not automount in any manner? They worked from the moment I installed FC4 -> FC6 -> FC7 and with an FC7 clean install. Have you looked at dmesg to see if those services are starting? The write up is for getting them where you want them when powering up. If I plug them in or turn them on later they do automount and always have.

Is there something special you did during the installation? Are you using a usb card you added after installation? (That should be found at boot time but maybe not.) When you type

pstree |grep automount

you should see one automount line.

Are there there no /dev/sdXY entries in /etc/mtab?

More basically why are you sure they are not automounting? They will mount at more than one point and do not take the next device letter in order. Before I set up the boot time mount they were all over the alphabet.

You do know you have to format it before you can use it although they usually come with VFAT on them these days.

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