automounting my flash drive in slackware 10.1

**Weedman** · 01-09-2006

i have used both kde and gnome with slackware 10.1 and neither mount my flash drive automatically.

i would like this to happen. How do i go about this?

thanks
weed

oz · 01-09-2006

If you haven't done so already, you'll need to make an entry for it in the /etc/fstab file. Here's what mine looks like:

Code:

/dev/sda1              /mnt/flash    vfat      user,noauto,noatime     0      0

**Weedman** · 01-09-2006

just a thought, does "noatime" option disable mounting the device on boot?

i will try putting that into /etc/fstab to see if it works.

thanks
weed

(edit)= i found out that "noauto" is that. What does 'noatime" do then?

**kern** · 01-09-2006

'noatime' tells the kernel to stop recording file modification timestamps for that file, you'll notice on some distros /var is mounted with 'noatime' to make the writes faster.

it depends if you want your flash drive handled by the window manager, or handled by a proper automount daemon.

what ozar stated with the simple /etc/fstab line would be simple enough for you, but if you had the skill you could setup UDEV/Hotplug/AUTOFS, so that every time you plug the pendrive in, hotplug loads the correct module for it,UDEV assigns it '/dev/stick' (in my case) from its UDEV rules, and the automount daemon and AUTOFS assigns it the mountpoint of /mnt/stick

as soon as the mount isnt being used any more AUTOFS unmounts it..

cool eh?

like windows. . my iPod and NFS/SAMBA shares work the same way.

its definately not as easy as ozars solution though, but its proper hotplug, and you wont have devices quibbling over /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, and static fstab rules to mount them, and making sure you plug them in the right order etc. UDEV and AUTOFS totally negates needing to do any of that.

**Weedman** · 01-10-2006

that IS cool!

im wondering whether i should bother trying to install udev and autofs from source.

thanks for that
weed

**bidi** · 01-10-2006

Check it out:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Automount.html

It's not too bad, but might take a few tries. I've read through it but never actually got my hands dirty with this kind of stuff, automount really isn't that important to me.

**kern** · 01-10-2006

Originally Posted by Weedman

that IS cool!

im wondering whether i should bother trying to install udev and autofs from source.

thanks for that
weed

from source? NO

what are you talking about - use the slackware packages, both come with slackware

**Weedman** · 01-10-2006

Originally Posted by kern

from source? NO

what are you talking about - use the slackware packages, both come with slackware

lol ok, maybe not this from source.

**kern** · 01-10-2006

Originally Posted by Weedman

lol ok, maybe not this from source.

You should learn how to make slackware packages, never,EVER use the make install target in the makefile, you'll ruin and bloat your system installing directly from source, learn how to make proper slackware packages of your applications you compile with checkinstall.

thing is, you'll be back to packages again which I know you're trying your hardest to avoid to make it at least 30 times more difficult for yourself.

I can almost see you building KDE 3.5 from source and then making packages from it, when that whole waste of time can be avoided by just downloading _their_ binary packages in the first place.

do you get the point of learning how to make packages and use them wisely now?

**Weedman** · 01-11-2006

yeah i get the point.

btw, is there anyway of making a slack package from a source tarball?

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