How to put a permanent entry in fstab for usb pen drive

zulfilee · 08-31-2004, 06:04 AM

I`ve got a samsung USB pen drive that mounts as /dev/sda1

I wanted to put a permanent entry in fstab but when i remove the stick the entry goes off.

The entry was

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,user,kudzu 0 0

I want to make this entry permanent so that i dont have to put it back again to allow users to mount a usb mem stick

Cheers
Z

ranger_nemo · 08-31-2004, 06:28 AM

I've recently done the same thing in my FC2. Only diff is I don't have the "kudzu" option in mine.

LinuxLala · 08-31-2004, 02:59 PM

Someone at my LUG had the same problem so he chose to write vfat instead of auto and that solved it.

Thymox · 08-31-2004, 06:22 PM

What I tend to do is wait for the "automounter" to detect the presence of a new removable device, wait for it to add an entry to the fstab and then edit it! I would change the mountpoint to something meaningful (I have /mnt/pendrive) and remove the kudzu option. That works well enough for me, but your mileage may vary.

zulfilee · 08-31-2004, 11:36 PM

If i put vfat , will it work if it is ext2 partition i have on that flash stick?

And I did this
ln -s /dev/sda1 /dev/flash1

Put the entry in fstab . It seems to work but sometimes on reboot the entry dissapears

And I will try removing kudzu too

Thanks for that. But if any other user is using the device what permission should i give to the mount directory?

Cheers
Z