how can I change mount point of usb-flash drive?

[felipe1982]

My fstab currently has *NO* references to usb, except for one line:

usbfs    proc/bus/usb    usbfs    noauto    0 0

Under suse 10.1, my usb mounts automatically whenever I plug it in (at least something works in suse :P). It automatically mounts to /media/usbdisk

How do i go about changing this with pure command line? Is there a specific file I should edit? Which one(s)?

[devils casper]

check the contents of /etc/mtab file.





casper

[felipe1982]

> view /etc/mtab

.....
/dev/sda1  /media/usbdisk  vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,flush,uid=10000,utf8,shortname=lower  0 0
...

[devils casper]

well ! in this file, change the mount point '/media/usbdisk' with the one you want.






casper

[felipe1982]

I wasn't sure - lol. I must look stupid now. I thought that changing anything in mtab wasn't permanent. I thought the system always overwrote mtab. I"ll try it out. Thanks DC.

/edit: i edited mtab. I umounted the sda1. I opened up mtab again. The reference to sda1 was gone.

[bigtomrodney]

udev decides where devices are mounted in most modern distros. Try looking at udev rules in /etc/udevd and see if yuo can add one for your disk. Warning - not as casual as it may sound, involves a bit of reading...

[burntfuse]

felipe: You don't look stupid, mtab is the file which shows which filesystems are currently mounted. fstab is for permanent mount points.

[felipe1982]

hehe, thanks, burntfuse.
this is what I see:

felipe@anarchy:~> ll /etc/udev
total 5
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 736 2006-11-27 03:39 rules.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 226 2006-09-07 10:56 udev.conf
felipe@anarchy:~> more /etc/uniconf.conf
/ = retry:unix:/var/lib/uniconf/control
ca/nit/uniconfd = ini:/var/lib/uniconf/uniconfd.ini
ca/nit/nssuniconf = unix:/var/lib/uniconf/control
felipe@anarchy:~> more /etc/udev/rules.d

*** /etc/udev/rules.d: directory ***

felipe@anarchy:~> more /etc/udev/udev.conf
# udev.conf

# The initial syslog(3) priority: "err", "info", "debug" or its
# numerical equivalent. For runtime debugging, the daemons internal
# state can be changed with: "udevcontrol log_priority=<value>".
udev_log="err"

felipe@anarchy:~>

[felipe1982]

any help would be greatly appreciated. I have been unable to change the mount point of USB flash disk. Suse 10.1 automatically mounts to /media/usbdisk whenever I plug the thing in.

[Roxoff]

I know it's not quite what you want, but cant you just create a symlink to /media/usbdisk from where you need it?