I have a Western Digital "My Book" external USB and Firewire hard drive. I have been using it to backup my laptop. Recently my backup file (gzipped tar of my home directory) exceeded the 4GB limit of the fat32 file system on this drive. So, I proceeded to go ahead and change the file system from fat32 to ext3. I was not going to use this with anything else but Linux anyway, so the better file system sounded good. So, I used GParted, and reformatted the drive (I'm using FC6) as an ext3 file system. It redid the partition and reformatted the drive successfully with no errors. I had unmounted the drive prior to this, as GParted would not let me do this without doing that first. Afterwards, I unplugged it, and replugged it into the USB port, and it came on, just like before, but it wouldn't automount. I manually mounted the drive to a directory owned by my normal user, and I am able to read and write to it successfully. The drive appears to function properly.

Why won't it automount to /media/My Book anymore? What causes FC6 to automount something to begin with? Does it have to be a fat32 partition for the automount to work? Is there something with the disklabel that causes the automount to work and show it as a drive on the desktop? I thought it would work regardless of the file system on it, but I guess not.

Any help in restoring the automount functionality would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.