More woes automounting USB drive on karmic

[Goh Lip]

pkaplan1 at comcast.net wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
> 
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So, does the suggestion by John (to use /mnt rather than /media) works?
If it works, it is possible that in Jaunty you may had also manually 
created a directory /media/jupiter etc as well?

Regards,
Goh Lip

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