Pen drive, how detect automatically

dass · 07-24-2006, 03:36 AM

Hi
This is my first post.
I use slackware, for a while, and always use the terminal to mount a pendrive.
Well it really doesn't matter, but what should i write in fstab, to just plug the pendrive, and the system automatically detect's and mount the pen ?
thank's

Sorry, for my english,i'm Portuguese.

syahid · 07-24-2006, 03:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dass

Hi
This is my first post.
I use slackware, for a while, and always use the terminal to mount a pendrive.
Well it really doesn't matter, but what should i write in fstab, to just plug the pendrive, and the system automatically detect's and mount the pen ?
thank's

Sorry, for my english,i'm Portuguese.

i think you can check # dmesg once you plug in the usb stick
if i'm not mistaken
it should be sda<number>

correct me if i'm wrong.

Gethyn · 07-24-2006, 03:59 AM

If you want it to be automatically picked up, one way is to upgrade to a 2.6 kernel (there's one in the Slackware ftp packages section, under "testing"), and then install dbus, hal and ivman. At least this is how I do it in Gentoo.

cathectic · 07-24-2006, 05:50 AM

Another popular method that has been posted on here is to use autofs - if you search for that in the forum archives you should find plenty of information on how to set it up.

dass · 07-25-2006, 03:59 AM

ok thank's

rkrishna · 07-25-2006, 05:00 AM

do a "dmesg |grep usb " or dmesg |more and scroll down and see what device is assigned.
if u dont have a scsi or sata disk most of the time the usb will be /dev/sda1, i hope ue usb will be vfat and u have a /mnt/usb dir. with all these im mind i will edit the fstab as

Code:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb vfat noauto,rw,umask=000 1 0

now plug the usb in and do a mount command (mount /mnt/usb)or click on the relevent icon in "mycomputer"
note: if /dev/sda1 is not the device then /dev/sda2 or /dev/sdb1 may be then edit fstab like that

ferradura · 07-25-2006, 06:44 AM

PT sempre em grande!

o post anterior explica bem o que tens que fazer...

take care!