Re: mount external usb drive at boot
On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:57:06 -0400
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)
Here's what I have and it works fine:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ext3 defaults,noatime 1 2
/dev/sda2 /iso ext3 defaults,noatime 1 2
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