Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Paul Cartwright wrote: > >> Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> On Mon,20.Oct.08, 17:06:25, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >>> >>>> I suggested to use device by uuid >>>> >>>> /dev/disk/by-uuid/3fca395b-d75d-44ab-98be-9ec05b2e45fd >>>> /media/usb_2G_part3 auto users,noauto,atime,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 >>> >>> You can shorten this a bit: >>> >>> UUID=3fca.... >>> >>> It's not much, but given that the UUID is already very long... >>> >> here is my /etc/fstab entry ( that works) >> UUID=686C-7E81 /media/usb_DAWGS vfat >> users,atime,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid,noauto 0 0 >> >> ( that was all one line) >> >> in the /media folder is a file called .hal-mtab >> I was trying to add an entry in there for this, so my wife could unmount >> it, but I was not successful. The fstab entry still mounts it: >> >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-08-16 15:14 usb_DAWGS >> >> > > For me the UUID= entry did not work > > The /dev/disk/by-uuid work > > Paul, the .hal entries are system entries they do not have to be set in > fstab > I tried adding that /dev/disk/by-uuid entry to .hal-mtab , but no change. I think the REAL way to do it would be with a /etc/udev/rules.d entry, but after looking at man udev and the 50.udev-rules file, it is way over my head. I give up. I'll just have to tell her to switch to my user to add entries, since I seem to own everything inserted.
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