In the old days, I just used the command line mount/umount command
like :
mount /media/usbdisk
That was annoying though because with usb devices, the system
would map them to different scsi devices depending on the
order in which they were detected, one day the same disk
would be /dev/sda1 and the next /dev/sdc1 and so on.
Now fedora 5 uses
HAL and udev, so from the GUI it seems you have to right click the drive
icon on the desktop when udev/hal detects it and then select mount
from the menu. That's fine but how can I mount/umount from
only the command line if I'm ssh'ed into the machine and don't
want to or can't use the GUI? When I try the mount / umount command
it complains there's no entry for that device in the /etc/fstab file, but
if I edit the fstab to add it, it eventually gets overwritten (I think
by udev/hal ) and the change is lost. Also, obviously
it's not ideal to use fstab entries with usb because the
scsi devices it maps to keeps changing, which was the whole point
of udev and udev-rules --> to correlate unchanging Vendor id's
in the drives firmware to a logical name like /media/maxtor_disk
I think I read there's a command line command gnome-mount
but I didn't have much luck with that. I use KDE but I installed Gnome
too so the libraries should be available. So basically what I'd like is the
same mount unmount command line functionality for FC5 and later.
Mark
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