[nflug] Flushing a USB drive (and mounting a second partition from my desktop)

[Cyber Source]

<so I wouldn't be sure what
unmounting it (Safely Remove  - option) would do relative to the second
partition.>
HUH?


<BTW, do you know how to get a usb drive to always be the same /dev...
even when it's plugged into a different usb port or plugged in after
something else?>
That's what UUID's are all about.

Joe wrote:
> Cyber Source wrote:
>   
>> udev should handle the second partition as it does the first. Have a
>> look in your /etc/fstab file for a conflicting entry relative to the
>> partition that's not automounting, you most likely have a conflicting
>> entry in there with the "noauto" option. I'm a gnome guy but I'm sure
>> if you right click on the icon in kde, you'll get a eject/unmount
>> option for the drive just like in windows.
>>
>> Joe wrote:
>>     
>>> I have a USB 250GB hard disk with two partitions on it.  One is for
>>> Windoze and one for Linux.
>>>
>>> When I plug it into the usb socket, kubuntu/kde puts an icon on my
>>> desktop for the first partition on the drive (which happens to be the
>>> windows one).
>>>
>>> I can mount the second partition (Linux) manually using sudo mount
>>> /dev/sdb2 /media/linusb
>>>
>>> * How can I get the second partition to mount just like the first one
>>> does - with no fuss?
>>>
>>> * When I want to unplug the drive, how do I flush it (assure that all
>>> writes have completed)?  For the Windoze partition, I just right-click
>>> on the desktop disk icon and select "safely remove".
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Joe
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> That might work, but I'm not sure since clicking on the icon only mounts
> the first partition (as far as accessing it), so I wouldn't be sure what
> unmounting it (Safely Remove  - option) would do relative to the second
> partition.
>
> I used to sort of know my way around fstab in Mandrake 9.1, but this
> stuff about UUID ... is completely new.
> The drive itself becomes /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2 when connected and I
> don't think anything in fstab references that at all.
>
> BTW, do you know how to get a usb drive to always be the same /dev...
> even when it's plugged into a different usb port or plugged in after
> something else?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Joe
>
> fstab:
>
> bigbird at sananda:/etc$ cat fstab
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> #  -- This file has been automatically generated by ntfs-config --
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
>
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> # Entry for /dev/sda4 :
> UUID=c171912f-5148-41b9-a2e3-70a68361cc57 / ext3
> defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
> # Entry for /dev/sda6 :
> UUID=0deaaf4c-bacb-4644-a3f1-96c46c1b8844 none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/sda1 /media/windoze ntfs-3g
> auto,rw,gid=1002,umask=0002,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
>
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