CentOS - Mar 2011 - Mounting an external USB drive

With Centos 5.5, my external USB drive appears to self mount in 
that the icon appears on the desktop and when I double click on 
it, the files are there.  However, I recall that I need to make 
an entry in the fstab as well as some other changes.

When I do a

# /sbin/fdisk -l

I learn that the device is /dev/sda1 and the system is HPFS/NTFS

I am not sure what to enter into the file system table, fstab and 
if other entries/directories need to be made.

Todd

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On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Todd Cary wrote:
> With Centos 5.5, my external USB drive appears to self mount in
> that the icon appears on the desktop and when I double click on
> it, the files are there.  However, I recall that I need to make
> an entry in the fstab as well as some other changes.
>
> When I do a
>
> # /sbin/fdisk -l
>
> I learn that the device is /dev/sda1 and the system is HPFS/NTFS
>
> I am not sure what to enter into the file system table, fstab and
> if other entries/directories need to be made.
If it is mounted, why would you need to make fstab entries? The system already
knows enough to make it useful.

Regards,

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