rflook

Hi there,

I am currently running a Knoppmyth system and am having a slight problem automounting a USB harddrive. I have ammendned the fstab file with a line which supposedly automounts the external drive. However what i want to happen is for me to be able to browse the drive without first having to type 'mount -a' or without first having to double click on the harddrive in Konqueror. My reason for this is that unless i do either of these options MythTv wont find the files on the device.

Where might i go about adding the 'mount -a' command to sort out my problem?

Many thanks

Rob

kahoona

I found this from another site a while back:

New user often gets confused with Linux security permissions. Simple mounting of a USB flash drive as a normal user (non-root) can be hard task.

Truth:
The mount command can be issued only as the root user.

Solution:
Give permission to normal user to mount a USB pen or flash drive.

#1: Create a directory
#2: Find out USB drive name

Output of fdisk -l command:
In the above output, /dev/sda1 is my flash drive.

#3: Open /etc/fstab file
Append following line:

#4: Save the file and login as the normal user:

IsaacKuo

Could you post your /etc/fstab file?

Is there a line which looks something like this?

If so, then the USB harddrive will NOT automatically mount. The "auto" in the above only means that the file system type will be detected automatically. The "noauto" in the options list means the harddrive will NOT be automatically mounted on boot-up.

You want to change the "noauto" in the options list into "auto" in order to have the drive mount automatically.

(Note, the above advice assumes that you want the exact opposite of what you seem to want. I'm assuming you want the drive to automatically mount on boot-up with no manual intervention. The other guy seems to think you want it to NOT boot up except by manually entering the mount command.)

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kahoona

IsaacKuo, thanks for pointing that out auto/noauto. I just updated my personal documentation.

orthanc

HI

I have installed Knoppix 5.1 (knx2hd) on my compaq evo n160 laptop. when i insert a usb drive i can see it via usbview but on doing fdisk -l i donot see any device for that.
How can i mount the usb device.

Thanks

kahoona

Try this:

# mkdir /usbdrive
# mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /usbdrive

You can unmount it with

# umount /usbdrive