On Wednesday 30 January 2008, Joseph wrote: > On 01/30/08 12:40, Pavel Sanda wrote: > >hi, > > > >i have external hard drive connected through usb. i put the > > following line into /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb ext3 > > user,auto,exec 0 0 > > shouldn't that be: "users" instead of "user"
Maybe, maybe not, both are valid. "user" means that any non-root user can mount the device and the same user (or root) may umount it. "users" means that any non-root user can mount the device and any other user (or root) may umount it. > Plug the exter. HD into USB and post the last several line of "dmesg" > What does it say? It'll probably say that the device is /dev/sdb1 or some such. The real problem is likely what another poster mentioned - suitable drivers not loaded yet when init comes to use /etc/fstab. One could try listing these drivers in /etc/autoload.d/kernel-2.6 but the easiest is probably to compile them into the kernel -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
