Have you tried accessing the drive with a different account. It shows up in gnome but it seems that it requires about twice the amount of I/O for it to read and write to it. I backup my drive about 32 Gbyte and it takes 3 hours versus 1 hour to do the backup if I do not do a fstab mount on it. I am wondering if it is my system or it shows up on somebody else system. James Knott wrote:
John Sowden wrote:
I would like to plug in a usb memory stick, or a usb hard drive and know in advance where it is going to mount, extactly. My backup and archive programs check to make sure the correct removable device is installed (using dosemu) and DVD-RAM media, sparq media and ubb sticks. I cannot do this under linux without knowing the mount point of the device. I am running suse 8.2. I like to put my external media in a directory called /media. I would like to name the device, especially the mem sticks, as I have several and I could put a label on the device. Alse, since I use different encryption keys for different pieces of media (not type), ID becomes an issue.
I checks man pages, info pages, admin manual in the suse help. none address this issue.
I don't know about 8.2. With 9.3 and KDE 3.4, it will create a mount point, based on the volume name. For example, if you give the USB stick a volume name of Pen_Drive, it will be mounted at /media/Pen_Drive. The same applies for CDs.
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