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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:25:11 -0500
From: "Dan Cowsill" <danthehat@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] External hard disk doesn't mount on boot
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Dan Cowsill <danthehat@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Dan Cowsill <danthehat@gmail.com> 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:
> > > > 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
> > >
> > >
>
> Okay, so I wrote a new rule into rules.d that goes like this:
>
> KERNEL=="sda", RUN+="/bin/mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /home/dcowsill/usb"
>
> Now, this works (sort of). If I were to run udevstart, udev would
> happily execute mount on the usb drive and all would be well. If the
> system is restarted or the device is plugged in, no joy.
>
> So why is this only executing when I use udevstart?
>
>
>
> --
> Dan Cowsill
> http://www.danthehat.net
>
Yeh, I wasn't being specific enough with my rule. This rule (revised)
works perfectly:
KERNEL=="sda1", RUN+="/bin/mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /home/dcowsill/usb"
Thanks Alan, for putting me on the right track. Also, much
appreciation goes to Greg Kroah-Hartman, who wrote udevtest!
Cheers
--
Dan Cowsill
http://www.danthehat.net
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