Re: mount external usb drive at boot
On Apr 8, 2005 6:57 PM, Hannuman Bull <hannuman@bullwebsystems.com> 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
>
> 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)
>
Since there's a slight chance your drive might change device nodes
(one boot it could be /dev/sdb, if you add or change something it
could end up being /dev/sdX) I recommend using LABEL based mounting.
It's helpful (and easier) for using external drives. It only works
with a couple of filesystem types, but ext3 is one of them
First, label your drive:
# tune2fs -L backups /dev/sdb1
(replace backups with what you like to label it as)
then in /etc/fstab instead of using the /dev/sdb1 use the label.
LABEL=backups /backuppc ext3 rw,auto 0 0
The next problem is forcing it to be mounted before backuppc... if
it's not a script that will be replaced you can cheat and just put
mount -L backups
in the backuppc script before it starts.
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