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On Thursday 20 March 2008, Dan Cowsill wrote: |
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> Right, so I have an external USB hard drive always hooked up to my |
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> machine. I've a listing in /etc/fstab to mount it at boot. |
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> Unfortunately, the drive does not boot because localmount can't find |
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> /dev/sda1. Now, after the boot process I can find /dev/sda1 and |
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> mount the drive just fine, leading me to believe that localmount |
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> tries to mount the drive without populating /dev with USB devices. |
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> How could I resolve this? |
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The canonical way is of course to use udev to run a mount script as soon |
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as the usb drive's device is created. This is hard and requires much |
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googling. |
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The hackish, kludgy, totally not recommended method that always works is |
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to put a call to 'mount -a' in /etc/local.d/local.start |
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:-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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