Edgy - automount hard disks
David Hart
ubuntu at tonix.org
Tue Oct 10 09:06:37 UTC 2006
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:47:41PM +0100, Oliver Maunder wrote:
> I've got an AMD64 system running Edgy beta and I just put a FAT32 formatted
> IDE hard drive in it.
>
> I expected the drive to be automatically recognised and mounted when I
> re-started, but it wasn't, and I had to mount it manually using
>
> sudo mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /media/newdisk
>
> Either the drive should have mounted automatically, and this is a bug or I'm
> expecting too much and this is normal behaviour. Anyone know which it is?
/media is a mount point for removable media not fixed disks. If you
want it mounted somewhere automatically on boot you'll need an entry in
/etc/fstab.
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David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>
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