(solved)2 usb devices w/ different filesystems

[krazy_kenny1]

still kind of a noob so bear with me...i have a usb key with the fat filesystem i've been using for awhile via this line in my fstab:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb vfat noauto,user,exec 0 0

i now also have an external usb hardrive that is formatted ntfs that i can mount as root using "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb" but i can't mount or access it as non-root. i don't know how to enter this drive in my fstab since it is also sda1 but has a different filesystem.....

[Hayl]

set-up udev to make a symlink for each device with a meaningful name. you can set-up udev to look at various usb data that is specific to each device so it knows the difference, then you can use /dev/some_meaningful_name1 and /dev/some_meaningful_name2 for each device and therefore will be able to have different filesystems for each. it will create and remove the /dev/sda and the symlink dynamically for each device when they are plugged in/out.

there is a udev how-to on the Gentoo WIKI site.
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[krazy_kenny1]

i'll look into that for future reference but i actually already solved my problem. at first i thought the person i'm doing this for needed to keep all the files that are on the drive, but they then said i could format it if i wanted since they made a backup first. so i just reformatted it fat32...thanks anyways though