On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thursday 20 March 2008, Dan Cowsill wrote: > > > > > Right, so I have an external USB hard drive always hooked up to my > > > > > machine. I've a listing in /etc/fstab to mount it at boot. > > > > > Unfortunately, the drive does not boot because localmount can't > find > > > > > /dev/sda1. Now, after the boot process I can find /dev/sda1 and > > > > > mount the drive just fine, leading me to believe that localmount > > > > > tries to mount the drive without populating /dev with USB devices. > > > > > > > > > > How could I resolve this? > > > > > > > > The canonical way is of course to use udev to run a mount script as > soon > > > > as the usb drive's device is created. This is hard and requires much > > > > googling. > > > > > > > > The hackish, kludgy, totally not recommended method that always > works is > > > > to put a call to 'mount -a' in /etc/local.d/local.start > > > > > > > > :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Alan McKinnon > > > > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > > > > > > > -- > > > > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > > > > > > > Okay, so I wrote a new rule into rules.d that goes like this: > > > > KERNEL=="sda", RUN+="/bin/mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /home/dcowsill/usb" > > > > Now, this works (sort of). If I were to run udevstart, udev would > > happily execute mount on the usb drive and all would be well. If the > > system is restarted or the device is plugged in, no joy. > > > > So why is this only executing when I use udevstart? > > > Good work Dan. I'll save this thread for future reference. > > As someone who has used lots of external drives in the past you might > want to do your mount by label or some sort of drive specific UUID and > not by /dev/sda1. What can happen over time is that you'll add a > second drive and because USB or 1394 often do device discovery order > by which drive spins up first two identical drives will come up in > random orders which switches your mounting around strangely. > > I've had good luck just mounting by label without using udev but I've > wanted to figure this out. You've given me a nice start. thanks. > > Cheers, > Mark > -- > > > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > >
Yeh, I only opted for matching the kernel name of the device because the headless server I'm working on very likely will never encounter a new USB device. But the rule would be more robust. Glad I could help. Cheers -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
