5 Jul
2007
5 Jul
'07
8:07 a.m.
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.