Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)
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On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:10:29 +0000 (UTC)
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:31:56 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:12:56 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón wrote:
> >
> >> I.e., if your USB drive is listed there and you have something
> >> like:
> >>
> >> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> #
> >> # <pass>
> >> /dev/sdb1 /data/backup ext3
> >> acl,user_xattr 1 2 ^
> >>
> >> Then fsck will try to check that mount point, either is present
> >> or not (or at least that is my understanding after reading "man
> >> fstab") :-)
> >
> >
> > That's not what happens in my case. The boot process simply
> > gives an error that the device does not exist. There is no
> > attempt to fsck the non-existant drive. I gather this is because
> > the system attempts to mount the non-existant drive.
>
> Uh? Didn't you say...? :-?
>
> ***
> I found that initscripts seems to attempt to run fsck on
> non-existent devices that appear in /etc/fstab, and different fsck
> programs for different filesystem types give different error codes.
> ***
No. I didn't say it.
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:25:12 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote:
> Hi, I found that initscripts seems to attempt to run fsck on
> non-existent devices that appear in /etc/fstab, and different fsck
> programs for different filesystem types give different error codes.
>
> What is the easiest way to set up Debian to automatically mount specific
> devices if they are present, but not cause a boot failure when they are
> absent?
> Any device or partition listed under fstab are "static" ones. If
> you have defined a mount point that is not present at boot time,
> you will get a warning, that is a normal behaviour.
>
> If your USB disk is not always "on" and you want to prevent that
> warning, you can use de "noauto" option but you'll have to manually
> mount it when you plug it.
No, it mounts automatically when I plug it in...I just want it
mounted automatically IF it's present during boot
- --
Frank
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