my openSUSE 11.2 can't mount USB device automaticaly

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You can set automount for devices, but I’m sure it’s only 4.4.* on

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Thanks caf. I’m sure that the OP’s issue relates to the external device mounting behaviour of KDE4. A lot of KDE3/Gnome users seem to get tripped up with this.

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As you may have understood from my earlier post I am only talking about the mounting at boot of the partitions that are always there. The others are discusing the USB dynamic mount. These are two different problems and they should not be messed up which each other. It is allready difficult enough to have two problems in one thread.

For sda2 add the following line to /etc/fstab:

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-FUJITSU_MHV2120BH_PL_NW9ST6C262YM-part2    /CentOS    ext3   defaults  1 2

Attention! Replace ext3 when it is not an ext3 filesystem for e.g. ext2, ext4, reiserfs or whatever is applicable.
Attention! The directory /CentOS must exist. Thus do as root:

mkdir /CentOS

first. Also change the access bits with chmod when others then root must be able to e.g. write on it.
When this is done you can test if mounting works properly by doing

mount /CentOS

When no errors are given it should be OK.

For sda6 add the following line to* /etc/fstab*:

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-FUJITSU_MHV2120BH_PL_NW9ST6C262YM-part6    /windows/DATA     ntfs-3g    defaults 0 0

Attention! This supposes it is a ntfs compatible file system.
Attention! the directory* /windows/DATA* must exist, thus do as root:

mkdir -p /windows/DATA

first. Also change the access bit with chmod when others then root must be able to e.g. write on it.
When this is done you can test if mounting works properly by doing

mount /windows/DATA

When no errors are given it should be OK.

Last test: reboot and check if everything is mounted. This can be seen with

mount

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