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From: "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: udev problem with USB disk
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:16:36
Message-Id: 20080601141353.744c9eb4@prezmyra.remarqs.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] udev problem with USB disk by Allan Gottlieb
1 In <yu9bq2lourm.fsf@×××.edu>,
2 Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
3
4 > I am having trouble with my external USB disk.
5 > I have the following entry in fstab:
6 > /dev/usbhd1 /mnt/b ext3 defaults 0 0
7 > I have written /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules
8 > DRIVERS=="usb", ATTRS{serial}=="335144304641374D",
9 > ATTRS{product}=="ST94811U2-RK", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="Seagate",
10 > SYMLINK+="usbhd%n"
11 >
12 > When I boot into single user mode I see the following near the end of
13 > the messages
14 >
15 > Mounting local filesystems ...
16 > /dev/bus/usb/001/002 is not a block device
17 > Some local filesystem failed to mount.
18 > Mounting USB filesystem (usbfs)
19 >
20 > At this point ls -l /dev/bus/usb/001/002 yields
21 > crw-rw-r--
22 > ls /mnt/b shows that the mount did not occur.
23 > But if I now manually type umount -a
24 > all is well (/mnt/b has the expected files)
25 >
26 > As a work-around I added mount -a to local.start.
27 > I am a beginner with udev, but it looks like usbfs
28 > is being mounted too late.
29 >
30 > thanks for any help.
31
32 I had very similar trouble. I "solved" it, but I don't really
33 understand why the solution works.
34
35 <http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.slackware/msg/cf76ba8d39bcaea6>
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