Re: Mounting USB HDs the same every time.
"Eric A. Bonney" <mailinglists@vanhlebarsoftware.com> writes:
> I have 4 USB hard drives on my server in my basement. The power
> went out the other night for about 30 seconds and when the server came
> back online, most of my Samba shares where messed up. I figured out
> what happened was that the drives were not initialized in the same
> order as they were when I setup the shares. Now a drive that used to
> be /media/usb0 was say /media/usb1.
> So I have to go back and reconfigure my samba.conf file, not a huge
> deal, but still a pia. Is there anyway to make it so that the drives
> will always be named correctly upon rebooting of the server and
> mounted?
With udev, you have a permanent name under /dev/disk/by-id
> I think it needs to be done in fstab is that correct?
Use link provided by udev instead of /media/usb*
> The other issue I have is that I always have to actually click on
> each drive before it is able to be used by anyone else. Not sure
> why, but I don't think the drives are getting mounted at bootup.
The last field on your fstab line must be 2 instead of 0. But be sure
that your usb drive are powered on when you boot.
HTH
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Dominique Dumont
"Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they
need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner
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