More woes automounting USB drive on karmic

[pkaplan1 at comcast.net]

Do you have any idea why automounting these to /media worked on Jaunty but no longer works on Karmic? 
Paul 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John DeCarlo" <johndecarlo at gmail.com> 
To: "Kubuntu Help and User Discussions" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Cc: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com 
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 2:39:57 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: More woes automounting USB drive on karmic 


On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:54 AM, < pkaplan1 at comcast.net > wrote: 




I'm still having problems automounting a USB hard drive w/ 5 partitions on Karmic at boot time. 


Here's the relevant portion of /etc/fstab (This worked fine under Jaunty): 



# /media/jupiter was on /dev/sdb5 during installation 
UUID=5af75fba-045b-41c1-ae54-f7c5bc133694 /media/jupiter ext3 relatime 0 2 

I would try this using folders that exist. Create a folder like /mnt/jupiter and try replacing "/media/jupiter" with "/mnt/jupiter". 

The reason I say this is that /media is a special folder intended for hot-plug devices (devices where the folder doesn't exist beforehand and Ubuntu creates it when you plug in the device). So folders in /media are fair game to be deleted at any time. And /etc/fstab should expect the mount point to exist always. 

I expect this will increase reliability, too. 

-- 
John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own 


-- kubuntu-users mailing list kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-users/attachments/20091112/f4ad772b/attachment.html>