[Tfug] USB Drives

[Adrian]

On Thursday 16 June 2005 06:59, Jim Secan wrote:
[snip]
> I then had a data-loaded USB drive mailed to me that I attached to a second
> USB port.  This drive was automatically entered into fstab (by fstab-sync?)
> to be mounted as /dev/sdb1 at /media/usbdisk.
[snip]
> 1.  Should I make a hardwired entry for the second drive similar to how the
> backup disk is handled rather than let the system handle it automatically?
> If so, what device should I be using?
> 
> 2.  How does the system "know" at what device a USB drive will show up, or
> does it?  Is the same device always attached to the same physical USB port?
>  If so, how do you determine what device will be assigned to which USB port?
> 

This is one of the things that really pissed me off about FC3... they now have 
an auto-media-mount that ignores/rewrites fstab and automounts USB/Flash 
drives at will... I finally dug all that crap out of my system so it wouldn;t 
automount, but it took a while.

Adrian