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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting /dev/sdaX on boot does not work
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:39:14
Message-Id: 200801301932.35168.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting /dev/sdaX on boot does not work by Joseph
1 On Wednesday 30 January 2008, Joseph wrote:
2 > On 01/30/08 12:40, Pavel Sanda wrote:
3 > >hi,
4 > >
5 > >i have external hard drive connected through usb. i put the
6 > > following line into /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb ext3
7 > > user,auto,exec 0 0
8 >
9 > shouldn't that be: "users" instead of "user"
10
11 Maybe, maybe not, both are valid.
12 "user" means that any non-root user can mount the device and the same
13 user (or root) may umount it.
14 "users" means that any non-root user can mount the device and any other
15 user (or root) may umount it.
16
17 > Plug the exter. HD into USB and post the last several line of "dmesg"
18 > What does it say?
19
20 It'll probably say that the device is /dev/sdb1 or some such. The real
21 problem is likely what another poster mentioned - suitable drivers not
22 loaded yet when init comes to use /etc/fstab.
23
24 One could try listing these drivers in /etc/autoload.d/kernel-2.6 but
25 the easiest is probably to compile them into the kernel
26
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28
29 --
30 Alan McKinnon
31 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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