Edgy - automount hard disks

[David Hart]

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.

-- 
David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>