Darragh Bailey said the following on 21/07/2004 12:31:
Been having this problem for a while now.
Used devlabel to deal with a previous problem that depending on whether my
printer was switched on or not would affect which device my usb pendrive was
picked up as. devlabel allowed me to use a symlink to the device which it would
create and delete when the device was added removed, which meant that I could
use a consistent device name in my /etc/fstab file. This allowed me to set it
up so that any user could mount/unmount my pendrive.
my /etc/fstab file has the following entry for this device.
/dev/usb-pendrive /mnt/usb-pendrive vfat
noauto,owner,kudzu,users,noatime,gid=100,umask=002 0 0
The problem is that when updfstab is run I get the following message
cannot stat /dev/usb-pendrive: No such file or directory
which is not supprising really, since unless the pendrive is actually connected
to the machine the device entry isn't going to exist since devlabel will delete
it.
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To stop updfstab from complaining about /dev/usb-pendrive remove the
"kudzu" option.
You should rather use the /etc/updfstab* for you device as it will
create the entry in /etc/fstab whenever the device is plugged in and
remove it after the device is removed.
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Redmond, we have a problem.