USB HD -- must keep remounting

ErrorBound · 05-09-2006, 12:34 AM

Hi,
I'm using Kubuntu 5.10 with an external USB hard drive (comstar, 250GB if that is important). It uses at FAT32 filesystem and is already filled so I cannot format it without losing everything. I can mount it to /mnt/aux using the command

# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/aux

(as root). However if I restart, I must mount again. Is this normal? I don't think I should have to mount the drive over and over. Also, I cannot write to this partition.

Thanks for any help

ronban · 05-09-2006, 01:01 AM

so does that mean that you need to mount it automatically everytime you restart your system. If so an entry in fstab hepls you do that .. refer to man of fstab..

ronban · 05-09-2006, 01:02 AM

fpr the writing you can give an option called rw to fstab