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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] External hard disk doesn't mount on boot
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:01:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803201801.25992.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ef07b8c0803200722o2bea74c5wa253efaf78e2d708@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday 20 March 2008, Dan Cowsill wrote:
> Right, so I have an external USB hard drive always hooked up to my
> machine.  I've a listing in /etc/fstab to mount it at boot.
> Unfortunately, the drive does not boot because localmount can't find
> /dev/sda1.  Now, after the boot process I can find /dev/sda1 and
> mount the drive just fine, leading me to believe that localmount
> tries to mount the drive without populating /dev with USB devices.
>
> How could I resolve this?

The canonical way is of course to use udev to run a mount script as soon 
as the usb drive's device is created. This is hard and requires much 
googling.

The hackish, kludgy, totally not recommended method that always works is 
to put a call to 'mount -a' in /etc/local.d/local.start 

:-)


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-20 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-20 14:22 [gentoo-user] External hard disk doesn't mount on boot Dan Cowsill
2008-03-20 16:01 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2008-03-20 17:21   ` Dan Cowsill
2008-03-20 17:22   ` Dan Cowsill
2008-03-20 17:49     ` Alan McKinnon
2008-03-20 18:13     ` Dan Cowsill
2008-03-20 18:22       ` Mark Knecht
2008-03-20 18:27         ` [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] " Dan Cowsill
2008-03-20 18:25       ` Dan Cowsill

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