On 5/24/06, Greg Wallace
Beginning with 10.0, whenever I powered up a usb connected hard drive it would automatically get mounted to /media/usbdisk. As far as I know, this directory was created by the 10.0 installation, as I'm sure I didn't create it and don't remember seeing it under /media before 10.0. It was not defined in /etc/fstab, so I suspect that HAL might have been doing this mount under the covers. Anyway, with 10.1, this no longer happens, and the disk automounts to /media/sda5, which is an fstab entry. I stumbled upon this because I was creating a YaST backup and my backup profile was pointing to /media/usbdisk. When I ran the backup, it created the file under the /media/usbdisk directory, but that was not on the USB hard-drive. In other words, it just treated it as a regular directory on my main hard drive. No big deal, I'll just change my YaST backup profile to point to sda5 for future backups, but I just thought it was strange that this happened. Maybe the usbdisk mounting was actually just a hal glitch all along and it got corrected in 10.1?
Greg Wallace
Things, work quite well in my case!
But in one of my computers I have in the fstab an entry for /dev/sdb1 and when I plug a usb device suse try to mount at the mount point of the fstab entry. I removed the fstab entry (was there for historical, mine of course, reasons) and everything worked by default. (my usb hard drives are all labeled and by defaul the mount point is /media/medialabel, when the hard drives have no label the default seems to be media/usbdisk, unless there's a fstab entry for the usb device (10.0seems to ignore this entry, but i'm not an expect i'm only reporting my experience) best regards, --
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