On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 02:45:59PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > I have 4 USB hard drives on my server in my basement. The power > went out the other night for about 30 seconds and when the server came > back online, most of my Samba shares where messed up. I figured out > what happened was that the drives were not initialized in the same order > as they were when I setup the shares. Now a drive that used to be > /media/usb0 was say /media/usb1. > > So I have to go back and reconfigure my samba.conf file, not a huge > deal, but still a pia. Is there anyway to make it so that the drives > will always be named correctly upon rebooting of the server and > mounted? I think it needs to be done in fstab is that correct? The > other issue I have is that I always have to actually click on each drive > before it is able to be used by anyone else. Not sure why, but I don't > think the drives are getting mounted at bootup. >
Use volume label names. Name the volume with the tools for the specific filesystem (ext2, JFS, etc) then use LABEL= in fstab and with the mount command. The the respective man pages. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
