2009/5/25 Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com>
> Hi,
> I'm wondering what I need to read about and do to get a USB drive
> to auto-mount reliably at boot time? I don't know anything about udev
> so I tried what I thought used to work in my /etc/fstab file but it
> doesn't work. The drive mounts by hand just fine:
>
> MacMini linux # cat /etc/fstab | grep video
> /dev/sda1 /video ext3 auto,rw 0 2
> MacMini linux # df
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda4 75890040 60601600 11433376 85% /
> udev 10240 164 10076 2% /dev
> shm 257396 0 257396 0% /dev/shm
> MacMini linux # mount /dev/sda1 /video
> MacMini linux # df
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda4 75890040 60601604 11433372 85% /
> udev 10240 164 10076 2% /dev
> shm 257396 0 257396 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda1 157566568 192068 149370520 1% /video
> MacMini linux #
>
> Must I use udev (and if so how - what do I study to make this work)
> or can I do this in fstab and I've just forgotten something simple?
>
> Also, what's the feeling these days about the reliability of
> automounting by device? Would I be better to use e2label on the
> partition?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark
>
>
run *lsusb –v*
you will see somethin like this
*Bus 003 Device 010: ID 152d:2338*
*Device Descriptor:*
*...dVendor 0x152d*
* idProduct 0x2338*
* bcdDevice 1.00*
* **iManufacturer 1*
* iProduct 2*
* iSerial 5*
* bNumConfigurations 1*
Now make file /etc/udev/rule.d/z98-usb-flash.rules with this content
*SUBSYSTEM**=="block**", SYSFS**{idProduct**}=="2338",
SYSFS**{idVendor**}=="152d**", NAME**="name**" **RUN+="/bin/mount
/dev/name /media/name"*
*
Change idProduct and idVendor and to your data. And name too. With
this name your device will apear in /dev. And of course mkfir
/media/name
*
