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Mounting external USB drive as a specific mount point.

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kaemaril

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Hello.

I'm running SUSE 10.0 64bit, and I'd like to point /home to an external USB2 drive (specifically, a Lacie 500GB "bigger disk").

Can anyone give me advice on how to do this, or point me in the direction of a FAQ/resource of some kind? It looks like just popping it in /etc/fstab and telling it to automount doesn't do the job :(

Thank you.
 
Why doesn't fstab do its job? That's the proper way to do it. Could you post your fstab entry and any related error messages you get? You could try manually mounting the drive first:
Code: 
mount /dev/sda1 /home
Replace sda1 with the appropriate device, of course.
 
jpmkm said:
Why doesn't fstab do its job? That's the proper way to do it. Could you post your fstab entry and any related error messages you get? You could try manually mounting the drive first:
Code: 
mount /dev/sda1 /home
Replace sda1 with the appropriate device, of course.
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Well, I first installed SUSE 10 with the external disc in place. YAST seemed to recognise it, I was able to remove the NTFS partition and put an ext3 in place, install went well ...

until it came time to boot, whereupon it complained bitterly it couldn't fsck the drive. I (foolishly, very foolishly) deleted that line, tried again and all went well.

Since then I've been trying various permutations (more or less at random, all the options with fstab confuses the hell out of me ;) ), and nothing's done the trick :(

I was able to get it mounted by copying the automount. It mounted the disc, I issued a mount command to see what it did, and then put that in the fstab:

Code: 
/dev/sdg1      /xyz           subfs      rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=ext3 0 0
That works. I can read the directories. I just can't write to them.

Code: 
cd /xyz
df -k .
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdg1                    0         0         0   -  /xyz

ls -ld
drwxrwxrwx  1 root root 0 2006-05-01 17:46 .

touch fred
touch: cannot touch 'fred': permission denied

Needless to say, when the automount handled it I had no such problems.
 
I'm seeing a problem, in that the FS is subfs? I think I would try changing subfs to ext3, and removing the "fs=ext3" option.
 
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