Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Monday 28 August 2006 12:06, Basil Chupin wrote:
You don't say which version of SuSE you are using but here is the entry in my fstab which SUSE 10.1 created:
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto 0 0
When the USB flash is plugged in it appears in /media and the entry in mtab is:
/dev/sda1 /media/CORSAIR vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,flush,uid=1000,utf8,shortname=lower 0 0
Did you do anything other than the fstab entry?
I'm running 10.1 with the "we don't think people should have automount" update and I also have the above entry in my fstab. However nothing gets mounted... the CF card is seen and I can manually mount it, but it is not automounted.
Changing the 'noauto' to 'auto' fixed my problem with VMware where the flash disk was not being recognised when I plugged it in (I need it so that I can install s'ware in VMware). However, in 10.1 itself no USB is automounted - one needs to 'open' it from the menu which come when up yo plug in a USB device (or use My Computer or to access it and this will mount the device). I tried to configure the 'automount' menu so that a default action occurs when a device is plugged in but there is no option to simply mount the device - only to open it with <some-application> which really is a pain. However, someone (?Andreas) mentioned that one could always use autofs. I just went looking at this in Control Centre and this is not activated in the runlevel editor but when I went to do so I got the error message that autofs is not configured. I am now at the stage of having to figure out how to configure autofs (it seems that the config file is empty). Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1