From: danny s. <ori...@gm...> - 2005-12-29 17:12:14
|
On 28/12/05, Martin C. Atkins <mar...@pa...> wrote: > I would like to mount a filesystem on a hot-plugged usb drive - i.e. a dr= ive > plugged in after colinux started up. Do I have any hope of getting this t= o work? > Or will something freeze if I put a line like the above referring to a fi= le > system that doesn't yet exist? More importantly, can I have any guarantee= that > the Windows path for the filesystem won't change each time I hot-plug? > Hi Martin, That does not seem to cause any problems for me, just make sure for the filesystems sake that you mount/and unmount rewritable devices. Unfortunately, in the case of USB drives, you cant guarantee that the windows path wont change. I have a USB hard-drive caddy which now contains a hard drive from an older Linux box, with 3 partitions, if I remove it and replace it, the drives take up the next 3 enumerations, unplug it again, and the next three, and so on. Windows does not use the same enumeration until it cycles over, but if they are mountable on windows (a filesystem it recognises), then they will be on the same drive letters. Annoying - but my way is just to have added many of the enumerations (in a brute force method) to my colinux config, and presented them that way. I would be the first to say I would like a more elegant method. Danny -- Danny Staple MBCS OrionRobots http://orionrobots.co.uk (Full contact details available through website) |