Basil Chupin wrote: [pruned]
When you plugin and switch on the HD an entry is made in /etc/mtab file. Here for your info. is a copy of my mtab when I switched on my external which I have partitioned into 150GB ntfs and 50GB reiserfs and these show up at the bottom as sdb5 and sdb6:-
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/dev/sdb5 /media/disk ntfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uid=1000 0 0 /dev/sdb6 /media/disk-1 reiserfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0
Create in /etc/fstab the entry(ies) for your external HD with the info shown in mtab and then also create the actual DIRECTORY for this entry.
[pruned] I forgot to mention and clarify the presence of "noatime" in the 2 entries for the partitions of the external USB HD. I usually add this "noatime" to all the partition entries in fstab but this being a new install of 10.2 I forgot to do this. Reason why "noatime" is there is because every time a file is read a timestamp called "atime" (last access time) on that file is updated; this info is rarely used so to speed things up putting "noatime" stops this updating of the timestamp. Now, how did this get there when I don't have a permanent mount point for the USB HD? When you mount the USB go into My Computer and select Properties for the USB and then select Mounting tab. Here UNTICK both "Synchronous" and "Access time updates" - the latter results in having "noatime" showing in mtab above. Deselecting "Synchronous" will give you full throttle reading/writing to the the USB HD otherwise it will crawl along like a snail :-( . To see what happens read/write to the HD with Synchronous set and then deselect it. Cheers. -- In a period of great joy and pleasure you are comforted by the thought that tragedy is just around the corner. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org