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Old 11-25-2003, 05:01 AM   #1
timread
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Unhappy How to use mount and /etc/fstab


When I put a CDROM in my drive, a few seconds later a Konqueror window open showing my files. However, when I plug in my memory stick, Konqueror does nothing. It is not a problem of the memory stick, becuase from a command line I can mount it without any problems. I guess that I have an error in /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/pendrive auto auto,users,rw 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

Unfortunately I have read the man pages for mount and fstab several times and do not understand what is wrong. Any suggestions?

A related question: I don't want Linux to automount my Windows ntfs disk since I don't use it very often, but when I do want to use it I would like to be able to click on the disk drive icon I have on my KDE desktop to mount it. However, when I do that I get the error message "only root can mount this device. Which is really strange, becuase from a command line I can mount it (as a normal user) without any problems. The device listed by KDE for the disk drive icon is /dev/hdb2.

The corresponding line in /etc/fstab is:

/dev/hdb2 /mnt/ntfs_data ntfs noauto,users,umask=666 0 0

Any suggestions?

A final question. The man pages for mount and fstab are a little terse. Is there any decent tutorials online which explain mount a little better.

Thanks in advance.

Tim
 
Old 11-25-2003, 08:15 AM   #2
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Have you added a camera device icon to your desktop? If not then KDE doesn't know it has to poll /dev/sda1.
 
Old 11-26-2003, 04:33 AM   #3
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Uhh no, how do I do that when the KDE menu only lets me add:
- a directory
- different types of files (HTML, etc?)
- hard disk
- cdrom
- link to a URL

Thanks,

Tim
 
  


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