On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 18:57 -0400, Hannuman Bull wrote: > I have an external usb drive that I'm setting up as a backup hd. I've > partitioned and formatted the drive as ext3. I can mount the drive > manually at the prompt, but I can't seem to get fstab to mount it > automatically on boot. > > I've changed the /etc/fstab options several times without much success. > Here is my most recent setting: > > /dev/sdb1 /backuppc ext3 rw 0 0 Change "rw" to "rw,auto". Since this is a USB drive, and it might not be sdb at some point in the future, you should think about using udev. Then make a site- specific device name that the system will always map to that drive, no matter where (sd[a-h]) the kernel decides to assign the drive. > After boot, /dev/sdb1 is not mounted automatically. However, it does > mount properly when I manually type 'mount /dev/sdb1'. From 'mount', I get : > > /dev/sdb1 on /backuppc type ext3 (rw) > > > Just after boot, I get the following from dmesg : > > scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices > Vendor: ST340083 Model: 2A Rev: 0 0 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > SCSI device sdb: 781422768 512-byte hdwr sectors (400088 MB) > sdb: assuming drive cache: write through > /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 > Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > USB Mass Storage device found at 3 > usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using address 3 > input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Optical USB Mouse] on > usb-0000:00:1d.0-2 > > > I'm going to install BackupPC, so the drive needs to be mounted before > the BackupPC script is run in /etc/inid.d/ . Any help would be greatly > appreciated. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them." Cullen Hightower
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