Automounting USB mini drive

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On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 09:41 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> I'd like to see the answer to this also. As an ancilliary point...
> 
> The number of writes to a jump drive is large but not unlimited. It's A 
> Good Thing to add the noatime attribute to your fstab so that things like 
> an ls command, or anything that reads a file doesn't update the accesstime 
> for the file.
> 
> /dev/sdd2  /mnt/jump  vfat    noatime,noauto,user    0 0
> 

Ideally there is now a new-fangled way to do that in the usb
configuration stuff.

> BTW, there was a sale at uCenter this weekend. $16. 

uCenter?  Google was no help.

> That wasn't to make you feel bad but just to point out how cheap it's
> really getting.

I decided to try making it a bootable linux (fedora, since that's what I
am using otherwise).  That worked.  I needed to specify linux expert
when booting the install DVD.  The partitioning interface can be a
little confusing because the outline/tree view will expand unexpectedly
so that you will find your pointer on the WRONG drive at times.  I used
two ext3 partitions for boot and root.

After I was done the drive autoloaded!  My earlier changes had been done
with gparted.  My guess is that there is some difference in the handling
of the bytes.  I will do a careful comparison at some point when I get
the chance.  

The only other issue I faced is that the fedora labels (e2label command)
were /root and /boot which caused some confusion when autoloading the
device.  /boot got (auto-magically) relabeled to /boot1 at some point.
I changed the labels to usbroot and usbgrub and then edited the
grub.conf and fstab files to fit the new names.

-- 
Lloyd Kvam
Venix Corp