[Linux-disciples] External USB drive

[Karl Sokol]

So far, so good with the "sudo mount -o ro /home/church/yellow" bit - except
for the obvious fact that a read-only drive isn't terribly useful.

For Steve...
thanks, but I do umount when I am allowed to.  as for the ntfs, no, I don't
particularly need it to be so, but the drive came preformatted and I haven't
had any problems sharing an ntfs partition on my main hard drive.

Side question...
If I use the drive on another computer (after properly umonting or shutting
down, of course) and plug it back in, it often changes location (e.g. from
/dev/hdb1 to /dev/hdd1 or even /dev/sda1).  I have been using dmesg to find
it and then manually changing the fstab.

(/dev/sda1     /home/church/yellow ntfs-3g
defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,uid=0,gid=46,auto,rw,user 0 0)

There must be a better way.  Any suggestions?

On 8/15/07, Adam Rosi-Kessel <adam at rosi-kessel.org> wrote:
>
> Karl Sokol wrote:
> > I would really like this to be consistently reliable.  My best guess as
> > to what happens is that when the drive goes to sleep after 15 minutes,
> > unpredictable things happen at wake up.  Has anybody else had experience
> > with this sort of drive?
>
> Just guessing here, but try running it for a while read-only (-o ro for
> mount options) and see if it still fails.
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