[nflug] fstab usb drive question

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Stephen Burke wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am running BLAG 30000 (fc3) on dell optiplex PII with a small hard 
> drive (20 GB, dual-booted with 2k - 10/10) that has two usb2 hard 
> dives attached to it. One is the totally enclosed variety (made by 
> fantom drives) - 160GB - single vfat partition. The other is the 
> aluminum enclosure variety (some assembly required) with a 250GB 
> seagate drive split into four ext3 partitions. I would like to be able 
> to add these drives into fstab (correctly this time) so that all five 
> of these partitions would mount at boot time and I would be able to 
> write to them and share them out and all that good stuff, but 
> documentation about how to master fstab seems limited indeed. Unless 
> I'm just looking in the wrong place.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me on either what fstab might look like here or 
> where to find an fstab explanation not written in martian?
>
> Thanks,
> S.
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Stephen,

They will show up in your system as SCSI drives, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, 
with the former probably /dev/sda1 and the latter probably something 
like /dev/sdb1-4 so /etc/fstab would contain entries like:

/dev/sda1    /media/usbdisk1    ext3    defaults    1 2
/dev/sdb1    /media/usbdisk2    ext3    defaults    1 2
/dev/sdb2    /media/usbdisk3    ext3    defaults    1 2
/dev/sdb3    /media/usbdisk4    ext3    defaults    1 2
/dev/sdb4    /media/usbdisk5    ext3    defaults    1 2

In any event it will be easy enough to test using mount -t ext3 
/dev/sdwhatever /media/usbdiskwhatever and then drop what you discover 
into fstab.

Frank

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