Automounting a USB hard disk in Ubuntu server - how?

[Chris G]

I have an external USB hard disk connected to an Ubuntu server 7.10
system.  What do I need to do (install something?) to get it to
automount?

It currently works quite happily with the following line in
/etc/fstab:-

    /dev/sdb1       /backup         ext3    user,noauto        0 0

but as it's quite slow to appear I can't remove the noauto I don't
think as the drive isn't yet there when the system is booted.  In
addition it's not *guaranteed* to be /dev/sdb1.

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Chris Green