Re: how to delay boot when waiting for usb disks?
You are on testing?
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
Martin Kraus <lists_mk@wujiman.net> writes:
> Hi. I need to mount a usb disk during boot so that daemons writing to the disk
> start. The problem is that usb-storage takes time to set up block devices and
> it does this in the background so it depends on many factors if it makes it
> before mountall.sh is called.
> Is there some way this can be accomplished in debian without explicit sleep 20
> in mountall.sh?
Google seems to suggest these solutions:
a) rootdelay=xx
http://stoilis.wordpress.com/tag/rootdelay/
He uses 35 seconds, most people seem to go for a smaller value like 10.
b) udev
http://blogs.nonado.net/diamond/2010/03/27/mounting-usb-drives-at-boot-using-udev-on-debian/
However, I did not test or use any of these, so ...
Memnon
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