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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] External hard disk doesn't mount on boot
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:29:52
Message-Id: 200803201949.28812.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] External hard disk doesn't mount on boot by Dan Cowsill
1 On Thursday 20 March 2008, Dan Cowsill wrote:
2 > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Alan McKinnon
3 <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
4 > > On Thursday 20 March 2008, Dan Cowsill wrote:
5
6 <snip>
7
8 > > > How could I resolve this?
9 > >
10 > > The canonical way is of course to use udev to run a mount script
11 > > as soon as the usb drive's device is created. This is hard and
12 > > requires much googling.
13
14 <snip>
15
16 > http://gentoo-wiki.com/UDEV
17 >
18 > Am I on the right track here?
19
20 Yup, that's the one
21
22 I find udev to be a wonderful solution to a tricky problem, but be
23 warned - it has a history of changing rapidly with confusing results.
24 But having said that it does seem to have stabilised nicely in recent
25 times - Greg KH must be finding less and less stuff to take out and
26 thus achieving perfection in design.
27
28 The wiki page is a good read and an excellent thing to know a lot about
29 IMHO
30
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32 Alan McKinnon
33 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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