Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mounting USB drive?

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 May 2009 05:35:46 +0100, Stroller wrote:
>
>> Mark: yes, I don't see any reason NOT to address by label (e2label or
>> whatever XFS / Reiser use) these days. The only thing I can think of
>> is that your USB drivers or the kernel module that does USB mass-
>> storage is not loaded in time during boot. Aren't there any messages
>> about failed mounts amongst the kernel messages on the screen?
>
> That's most likely the problem, I had a similar situation trying to mount
> an SD card at boot time. Two solutions are to mount the device later in
> the boot sequence, from /etc/conf.d/local, or to build the necessary
> modules into the kernel. Since you're mounting the USB device on boot,
> there's no point in having separate modules for USB.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick

Stroller & Neil,
   Thanks. I don't know why but I hadn't considered the idea that the
USB driver would be better built into the kernel for this application.
Basically, this is a little PowerPC Mac Mini that I've turned into a
new HD Homerun/USB video storage MythTV backend server. I want to be
pretty confident that the hard drive is mounted because the machine is
headless and sitting in a corner. If someone turns it on after a power
failure I don't want to have to mess around to get the external
storage mounted. I don't need the drive mounted at boot time, but I
certainly want it up and running before the mythbackend script gets
started. If I get a power failure and someone restarts everything it
could be in the middle of a previous recording and I need the partial
recording to end up on USB.

   I'll look at building in the USB driver into the kernel and using
e2label also.

   I did actually manage to get it working using some udev rules that
I found in the forum, but I must say I don't really understand them
and never thought they were necessary. I'm glad you guys are thinking
the same way.

Thanks,
Mark