Automounting a USB hard disk in Ubuntu server - how?

[Karl Larsen]

Chris G wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
    Take all that stuff you added to /etc/fstab out of the file. Let 
Ubuntu load it automatic and mine comes up fast as /media/disk. If you 
do not have an ext3 file system on the portable hard drive do it now.

Karl


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