On 05-Jul-07 07:07:38, Tim Green wrote:
On 7/4/07, Ted Harding ted.harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
he says "If I go to Places Computer it shows the other hard drive and I can mount it and read or copy from it OK" despite the fact that it's not in /etc/fstab.
The only thing I can think of is that when he does that, whetever Ubuntu does behind the scenes amounts to an explicit
mount -t ... /dev/hdb* /...
command. But, not having any Ubuntu eperience, I simply don't know.
It sounds like the hot plug system is finding the disk, and mounting it, like it does for USB mass storage.
I'd suggest he try adding it to fstab with the desired mount flags.
Tim.
Thanks, Tim. I'll pass it on, and see what happens. Or, rather, I would pass it on, with the suggestion to copy the line for /dev/hda1 and edit it to substitute hdb1 (or whatever), so as to keep the same mount options. That's what I'd do on my setup.
But it looks a bit different in Ubuntu. Below is what he gets from 'cat /etc/fstab (I've put "" for line continuation):
$ cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # /dev/hda1 UUID=f21e9d7d-ccca-4f26-94a7-4d0019bf8e8b / ext3 \ defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /dev/hda5 UUID=c34ef736-5951-4b64-ac1f-7a1f1b47f80c none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
So, instead of the "/dev/hda1" etc. that I'm used to, there's a huge "UUID=...." identifier for the "hda" device, which is different according to each partition on the device.
So I wouldn't have a clue what to suggest he puts there for his "hdb" drive! Remember, this guy is newish to Linux ....
Any suggestions?
With thanks, Ted.
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