Hi friends first of all LQ forums really solved many of my queries (& I'm really thankfull to all of you ) but this one ,Im unable to find anywhere.here is the thing i WANT TO DO ..

I have a seagate external hard drive having ntfs partitions which I want to use in rhel5 as everbody knows rhel does not support ntfs so i INSTALLED NTFS-3G & now I am able to mount my External HDD "MANUALLY "

What I want is that, I want to set crontab in a way that as soon as I connect External HDD, it automatically mount all 5 partitions Im having on HDD( using this command "mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdcX /mnt/xyz" ) I know using crontab I can schedule things on my linux system but how can I use cron to automatically find Ex.HDD and mount it ??
Thanks in advance.
( Im posting this thread in newbie section because Im a NEWBIE to linux and still learning about it )

Hi,

I don't think crontab is the correct or most adequate solution to your question/problem. Have a look at how to write udev rules, which will be more useful.

Kind regards,

Eric

HI, EricTRA Im currently reading udev rules ,thanks for replting I'll let you know if any problem arrives ( I hope I can ask to you for help .....)