Mount a firewire drive at boot time...

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 10:44:59 PDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 15:59 -0700, Eric Walstad wrote:
> # Hal adds the items to my fstab a la:
> # cat /etc/fstab | grep /dev/sda
> /dev/sda4  /media/firewire4  ext3  pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
> /dev/sda3  /media/firewire3  ext3  pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
> /dev/sda2  /media/firewire2  ext3  pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
> /dev/sda1  /media/firewire1  ext3  pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

Have you tried looking at:

storage.policy.default.mount_option.noauto

> As an unpriviledged user I try:
> touch /media/firewire4/trash.txt
> touch: cannot touch `trash.txt': Permission denied

I'm not sure how this will happen... You need to add the line "users"
into the fstab.

> Also, once I get HAL to write the correct fstab, how do I get all this 
> working at boot time?

Richard



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