Mount points for external hard drive

[Florian Diesch]

Job Evers <jobevers at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have an external hard drive connected via firewire.  I'm running 8.04. 
>     I'd like to have my disk mount somewhere besides /media/disk/ and I 
> also don't need it to show up on my desktop.  

Create an entry in /etc/fstab. It should look like
 UUID=20269b52-6c69-47da-9954-dc6954d9638d /home  ext3 user,noauto 0 0

You can get the UUID by running
  sudo vol_id DEVICE
where DEVICE is your drive's device file (/dev/sdb1 or similar)

Replace ext3 with whatever file system you are using or use auto to
tell Linux to guess. 'man mount' and 'man fstab' will tell you some
more details.

> Does ubuntu use hald?  How 
> do I configure that?  What actually mounts the drive?  (I thought I read 
> something about pmount - but I don't have pmount installed)

HAL uses /usr/lib/hal/hal-storage-mount. 
AFAIK pmount only uses mount points in /media.

   Florian
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