Michael M. wrote: > Roby wrote: >> Richard wrote: >> >> >>> hmm, I've been think about this usb drive, about wiping the filing >>> system, and going with ext3 for that extra security. >>> >>> Q. since this is a usb drive, and if I do reformat it with ext3 filing >>> system, will it automatically mount when unplugging and plugging back >>> in, as it did before ? >>> >>> Or is there some major tweaks that have to be done, >>> please explain. >>> >>> Rich >>> >>> >> Just a minor tweak: editing /etc/fstab's entry for the usb drive to show >> ext3 instead of vfat and possibly changes in options to be applied; i.e., >> remove umask= if used. >> >> I don't see any reason that mounting would change ... although I'm no >> wizard. You still need to be certain it's unmounted before unplugging. >> >> I'm glad to be done with vfat here 'cuz defragging under win2k took >> forever ... and sometimes crashed midstream. Wow, just what I wanted: >> o/s screwup while it fiddles with my backup drive! >> >> Roby >> > > > If you take the lazy way out like me and use pmount, you don't even have > to bother changing any fstab entries. I recently reformatted my > external USB hard drive and changed the filesystem from fat32 to ext3. > It works just like it did before. (This is on Etch.) >
pmount is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normal users to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry. This provides a robust basis for automounting frameworks like GNOME's Utopia project and confines the amount of code that runs as root to a minimum. . This package also contains a wrapper "pmount-hal" which reads some information like device labels and mount options from hal and passes them to pmount. Install the package "hal" if you want to use this feature. . If a LUKS capable cryptsetup package is installed, pmount is able to transparently mount encrypted volumes. ... Thanks!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
