Mount USB HDD to a certain /media/folder after boot

[Karl Larsen]

SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 20:13 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
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>> SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
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>>> On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 07:47 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
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>>>> I don't know why all you people are messing around with fstab and UUIDs
>>>> for external disks. Since ...
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>>> ... I am not alone with this problem: There must be something as we say:
>>> Where smoke is ...
>>> ... there mus be fire too !? ;-)
>>>
>>> 1) Some of us are experts and everything gets automatic and smooth ;-)
>>> 2) Some of us are greenhorns and newbies and things do not get automatic
>>> and smooth ;-(
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I am among the 2nd ! ;-|
>>>       
>> You missed "(3) some of us think we know what we're doing, so we mess with
>> fstab".  The thing is, newbies usually get proper handling of external
>> drives, because they don't know enough to mess with fstab.  Externals
>> should _not_ be in fstab, unless you really know what you're doing, because
>> we don't automount anything in fstab except at boot time.
>> -- 
>> derek
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> Hi Derek
> Thanks for your feedback and your pointer:
> If understood correctly I do not need to have these external partition
> listed in fstab !
>
> I will try this. ;-)
> Cheers, svobi
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>   
    I have 3 USB external hard drives. One is rotory the other 2 are USB 
memory sticks. All three have been treated by fdisk to give me the 
wanted partitions. I always umount the thing before using fdisk and mkfs 
to do what I want.

    You can do all this with care and never have a problem. And when you 
make an error you know it and can fix it easy and fast.

Karl


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