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. tia --- John Sowden American Sentry Systems. Inc. 1221 Andersen Drive San Rafael, CA 94901 U.L. Listed Central Station Alarm Service Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail@americansentry.net http://www.americansentry.net
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.
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.
This is what I have in dmesg ============================== usb-storage: device found at 5 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. usb-storage: device found at 7 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: Disabling reads from problem bidirectional printer on usblp0 drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Unidirectional printer dev 4 if 0 alt 1 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x0604 usbcore: registered new driver usblp drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver Vendor: Maxtor 6 Model: Y120L0 Rev: YAR4 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Vendor: Generic Model: STORAGE DEVICE Rev: 0125 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 SCSI device sda: 240121728 512-byte hdwr sectors (122942 MB) sda: assuming drive cache: write through I've not put it in /etc/fstab, so it's manually mounted. /dev/sda1 118491736 21857436 96634300 19% /data1 It's a Maxstor 120G in a USB enclosure. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks
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.
-- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org
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