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 1JcOTp-0006a7-Ht for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:23:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 88DF7E0A69; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:22:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 576EFE0A69 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:22:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b22so497791rvf.46 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:22:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=q5ScKGJfTf0fY07zpNaWrjFJoDt8dWis21hja3myDzU=; b=uuDrniSLI1z69wA+iN4qgfXgmogMdrvTpxNdLqx4wfYSnMsFWXuf7emj8QPng/l0ENGCv0YYiJGlhnOIMmlOOiCiyhhRow0+ftGg9Q1lCcKcDZ9/pBUypIY1ZsVQostdIPXXB2cUazbSQ9MvYdf9zg5ioRiFmU/ZMyWevYClY5g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=aWEWhsjwCRzzCMFLxbzm3XQpxPl7JualSQm++EQDA0uyYKVH62f+HnjxhW6JyLpHWzjPQ5MzP13PHOoPiMe1E51ZojPwdgQyP2o+18tIhLJQVUwmfQ6QWcsPMgzuUT/9udXtRpkCakhVtYinyDaH9nPVxlTNrROXCJSj4D5dYQQ= Received: by 10.141.48.10 with SMTP id a10mr914716rvk.35.1206033773826; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:22:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.212.16 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:22:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4ef07b8c0803201022o7b824251p7826f22497ab1a54@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:22:53 -0500 From: "Dan Cowsill" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] External hard disk doesn't mount on boot In-Reply-To: <200803201801.25992.alan.mckinnon@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-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4ef07b8c0803200722o2bea74c5wa253efaf78e2d708@mail.gmail.com> <200803201801.25992.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 0e2eacc5-405e-4191-8c2e-24d0139f73c1 X-Archives-Hash: 1cb40cbc996c96b980052125dec7d20b On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > 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 > > :-) > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/UDEV Am I on the right track here? -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list