[ale] USB pen drive killed?

[Dow Hurst]

A quick clarification:

Your fstab entry contains vfat for the pendrive, but the auto.misc says 
-fstype=auto.  Is the fstab the parameter that takes precedence as to 
what filesystem the device has, or does the auto.misc entry?  I am 
thinking through how to structure this and realized that a set of mount 
points /mnt/usb1, /mnt/usb2, and so on could be used to mount an 
assortment of USB devices but you'd need the filesystem type explored 
rather than predefined.
Thanks,
Dow


Sean Kilpatrick wrote:

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>On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:18 am, Pete Hardie wrote:
> Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
>
> > If you are using mandrake, you should make the pendrive use
> > supermount--then you should be able to put it in and pull it
> > out with impunity.  Just look in /etc/fstab for how the cdrom
> > is set up, then imitate it for your pen drive.  
> > Never use mount/umount again!
> 
>| Sounds cool.  Does RH have anything similar?  I've looked into
>| hotplug, but it was heavy slogging for that documentation, and I
>| never found anything that looked like a step-by-step list of
>| procedures - just a lot of references to USB vendor data.
>
>
>Yes, but you have to work at it a bit.
>
>Here's how to create an automount icon for the KDE desktop:
>
>1. you are going to have to add a line to fstab, if it isn't 
>already there. Mine looks like this -- all on one line:
>
>
>/dev/sda1  /mnt/widget   vfat    
>noauto,owner,nodev,gid=users,uid=nobody,quiet,umask=2 0 0
>
>The OS recognizes my pen drive (which I call widget) as <sda1>
>and you will have to determine where yours shows up, probably 
>sda<something>.
>
>I created the directory /mnt/widget.  You might prefer /mnt/pendrive
>Whatever.
>
>2. then take a look at /etc/auto.misc and (as root) add the
>appropriate line to that file.  Mine looks like this:
>
>widget	-fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,gid=users,uid=nobody,umask=2	
>:/dev/sda1   [NOTE: there must be whitespace between the options list
>and the address beginning with the ":"  Also note that the "widget"
>is the NAME of the device.  That could be Bob, or Daniel, or pendrive --
>anything you like.
>
>3.  Now right click on the KDE desktop, then >Create New > Link to
>application. Open the "Execute" tab and add this line to the command
>block:  kfmclient openProfile filemanagement file:///misc/*
>You might want to cut and paste that line as spacing and capitalization
>are critical. Then replace the "*" with the "name" of the device as
>specified in /etc/auto.misc  In the example above the "name" is 
>"widget"
>
>4.  Only one small, tricky bit left. The standard delay on unmounting
>a file system is 5 minutes or  300 seconds and I assume you don't want 
>to wait that long. So, as root, open in an editor /etc/auto.master
>and look for a line like this:
>   </misc     /etc/auto.misc>
>
>edit that line so it looks like this:
>
>   /misc     /etc/auto.misc  --timeout=1     [that's two spaces between
>the .misc and the --]
>
>That will cut the delay on unmounting the file  system to one second.
>
>All that's left is replacing the stock icon. Right click on the icon
>and open the Properties dialog box and click on the icon as shown in
>the dialog box. That will bring up a list of icons. Pick one.
>
>You're done. Next time, plug in the pendrive and click on your desktop
>icon. You should have access to the drive. Just remember to CLOSE the
>window (and thereby unmount the drive) BEFORE unplugging the thing.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Sean
>
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