** Reply to message from Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 
Thu, 02 Jan 2003 09:43:21 +0100


> Hi,
> I use a USB-stick for sensitive data on my laptop. 
> So in /etc/fstab i placed a line:
> /dev/sda /mnt/usb ext3
> when my laptop boot i get a error: 
> mount: /dev/sda is not a valid block device
> but at the end of the boot process the stick is mounted anyway. Is there
> a way to do it better.

One can only mount partitions, not devices. /dev/sda is the first scsi device. To find 
what partitions are on the device, run "fdisk /dev/sda" as root and then issue the "p" 
command to print the partition table. I imagine it would be /dev/sda1. Get out of 
fdisk by issuing "q" command. Then edit your /etc/fstab entry to /dev/sda1 rather than 
/dev/sda

jb



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