<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Catalin David wrote: > Dear users, > > I know that it's Saturday and everyone is enjoying the week-end, but I > have a little problem... > > I have an external NTFS formatted 500GB external USB drive which is not > always plugged in when I turn on the laptop. So... I was wondering if > there is any way to make it mount directly to a special folder in > /media (for example disk_). I know that /etc/fstab takes care of these > details, but I don't know whether it will also work for plugged in HDD > after the boot sequence, while running Ubuntu. it works. i'll take a moment from my Saturday Morning Cartoons to help... - - open a terminal - - type "blkid" without the quotes - - plugin your usb drive - - type "blkid" again - - you should be able to figure out which drive is your USB one sice it won't be in the first list but will be in the second - - note the USB drive's UUID - - in the terminal type "sudo vi /etc/fstab" or whatever editor you want to use as root to edit your fstab file - - add a line to mount your USB drive to the folder you want (this folder must already exist btw) - - save your fstab - - exit the terminal - - reboot and see if it worked you should be able to look at the lines in your fstab and add a similar one. here's an example for an ntfs drive: # Entry for /dev/sda1 : UUID=10B49685B4966CCA /media/sda1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_CA.UTF-8 0 1 that line would mount my /dev/sda1 ntfs drive on /media/sda1 but it could just as easily be mounted on /home/dvincent/usbdrive or wherever i want it. hope this helps. - -d -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIOBgafpRzWFIV0XMRAiBHAJ4ugfX2KIEXd1eyxvRy8CUbKhMZvACdHFZC rZX5izZmlxg3tKvQMESrb6g= =1SUM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </body> </html>