From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JcPWS-00028s-8m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:29:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84742E0CBB; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:29:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com (qb-out-0506.google.com [72.14.204.238]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76C08E0CBB for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:29:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qb-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id z1so1102301qbc.10 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:29:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-disposition:message-id:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=7rL43+Xl9jz3jcsKQq+FocSs6aDFmgXnKv4iDQ5wIAM=; b=VGDY8QJfxJEK/HdfveQuxg/+9aU+NDJUKlecMY+ehUmA151lZvDBDKcVlv7o3JCrNiHuNjCJ2bP1Fs4nmFxlQfH3bsfjSYaKTTmpEILv6461LifcznAvj/pL8xOcq1q9HXCHH59ye4f4E+8jY06xGIaiAAb/8n2hBRCoLDTdBDY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-disposition:message-id:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=XQjYmxiKSFt6z/dZzMtnGM2dboZmhIWci0xF+crhi5NDO7S3m/+fvJmkUBOoqvcCeh7qMhPtFa1icZi/b2LzVaeu0fCDOQDQdhAsKbeabioQL6jl946tdVbITcuNGXy7BPVhPDZ6WG8ehNP+NcObeuS94B4gRwnmmdE/HSL13ZA= Received: by 10.35.105.18 with SMTP id h18mr859768pym.49.1206037788357; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:29:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.3? ( [41.243.250.63]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 39sm60066hug.2.2008.03.20.11.29.41 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:29:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <4ef07b8c0803200722o2bea74c5wa253efaf78e2d708@mail.gmail.com> <200803201801.25992.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4ef07b8c0803201022o7b824251p7826f22497ab1a54@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ef07b8c0803201022o7b824251p7826f22497ab1a54@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803201949.28812.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 96b6751f-9d03-4bb9-a634-58a3b89141ac X-Archives-Hash: 7a2e93cf810e6a63ae3069ac516a634e On Thursday 20 March 2008, Dan Cowsill wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 20 March 2008, Dan Cowsill wrote: > > > 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. > 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 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list