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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 19:49:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803201949.28812.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ef07b8c0803201022o7b824251p7826f22497ab1a54@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday 20 March 2008, Dan Cowsill wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Alan McKinnon 
<alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 20 March 2008, Dan Cowsill wrote:

<snip>

> >  > 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.

<snip>

> http://gentoo-wiki.com/UDEV
>
> Am I on the right track here?

Yup, that's the one

I find udev to be a wonderful solution to a tricky problem, but be 
warned - it has a history of changing rapidly with confusing results. 
But having said that it does seem to have stabilised nicely in recent 
times - Greg KH must be finding less and less stuff to take out and 
thus achieving perfection in design.

The wiki page is a good read and an excellent thing to know a lot about 
IMHO

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-20 18:29 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
2008-03-20 17:21   ` Dan Cowsill
2008-03-20 17:22   ` Dan Cowsill
2008-03-20 17:49     ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
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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