Re: mounting usb frustration

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:37:52PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 07/30/07 20:13, Carl Fink wrote:
> > USB detection has been broken on Debian for years, literally. It works fine
> > for me with removable drives, but my Testing system will detect my Palm
> > device once -- and never again, until I reboot. Then I can sync once more.
>
> It always works perfectly for me plugging thumb drives and a digital
> camera.
>
> I've taken to using UUIDs for permanent mount points, since pmount
> seems to bypass udev. And udev is (was?) in such flux and the rules
> changed on me.
>
> Here's a snippet from my /etc/fstab:
>
> UUID="c207a86c-91ac-4733-9760-93b0389e193d" /media/backup \
> ext3,ext2 defaults,noauto 0 2

For a shorter fstab entry, can you label a digital camera and then use LABEL="camera" instead?

Doug.

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