Hi ..
I can mount a USB memory stick as a super user (su) in /etc/fstab :

{mkdir /mnt/USB}
{vim fstab }
and i add :
{/dev/sda1 /mnt/USB vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0}

Having done this i can restart the computer ,connect the USB and it works without the need to mount it again.( Before i was mounting all the time using {mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/USB} ...)

However when i disconnect the USB without {umount /mnt/USB} i cannot mount it again unless i restart the PC again. (i tried mount as before and that was not working either)

So my question : Is there a way to plug and unplug the USB without having to {umount} every time?

Thanks in advance

If you're using the latest version of any major distro out there, every USB device should automount. What distro are you using? What version?

i forgot to give this info..
I am using Debian which i downloaded from http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ with kernel 2.6.8..and the automount is not set by default...what do i do now?

Have you installed the hotplug package?

Yes i tried to install it again now with apt-get ...and it says that i already have the newest version....

I had problems with automounting a USB stick with FC3, kernel 2.6.9 - sometimes it worked and sometimes (mostly) it didn't.

I recently upgraded to kernel 2.6.12 and since that time the USB stick has had no problems - not a single failure to automount.

Mike.

I dont know how to update the kernel..is there a way to upgrade it using apt-get easily?

I've never tried recompiling a kernel myself, but here are some instructions.

thanks i will try that later on today and i will let you know.. thanks again

i have now Kernel 2.6.8-16 and again ... it seems that before unpluging the USB I have to unmount it always.. And of cource it has to be mounted in fstab ...