mount & umount & hdd

[teraquad]

Hi,

I am trying to permanantly unmount and then remount my 1tb hdd in a new location. I origonally ran this command.

mount /dev/sdb1 -t ext4 /media/ZM_1tb

Now it appears on the desktop at all times unless i umount as root, and the directory is not what I expected. I thought it would appear under "/media/ZM_1tb". but, instead it appears as "/media/mountpoint".

I want to move it to zoneminders "/usr/share/zoneminder/www//events" folder so i have plenty of room for data and have it not appear on the desktop, much like /dev/sda1.

[nsnbm]

Hello teraquad,

As I understand it, /media is used to mount temporary media and is reset on each reboot. I believe it uses tmpfs. When I want a permanent mount point, I have created my own such as something like /mount which is persistent over reboots and will not appear on the desktop like /media mounts do. Ben.

[dd_wizard]

Actually, the traditional directory for fixed mounts is "/mnt". It is created in Fedora by default.

dd_wizard

[Gareth Jones]

Add the following line to /etc/fstab:

UUID=[uuid] /usr/share/zoneminder/www/events ext4 defaults 1 2

(Replace "[uuid]" with the volume's UUID, as output by the "blkid /dev/sdb1" command.)

Run "su -c 'mount /usr/share/zoneminder/www/events'" to mount the volume. It should be automatically mounted on future boots.

Gareth

[teraquad]

Thanks!

I assume this will permanently unmount the volume from /media/mountpoint where it is now.

Thank you very much!

---------- Post added at 06:57 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:35 PM ----------

Works like a charm, now all i have to do is get ZoneMinder to believe it.
I took it on myself to remove the old line from fstab.
Thank you very mutch!