Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 11:01:00PM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote:
>
> In my case I have:
>
> UUID=4823-93A9 /mnt/usb8gig vfat
> defaults,users,uid=65534,gid=65534,umask=000,shortname=win95
> 0 2
>
> (all on one line)
>
> If I change that trailing "2" to a zero, no fsck should be performed.
>
> I would like to have automatic mounting with fsck if the drive is
> present when the machine is booted, and automatic mounting without
> fsck if the drive is plugged in after the machine is booted.
>
> Is this possible with any of the standard Debian tools and config
> files, or will it require yet-another-script?
>
How about if you leave your fstab set up for no automount and no fsck,
and then use a @reboot cronjob to fsck and mount the device if the
device node is present. For instance, in /etc/crontab you could try:
@reboot root test -L /dev/disk/by-uuid/4823-93A9 && fsck.vfat -a
/dev/disk/by-uuid/4823-93A9 && mount /mnt/usb8gig
(all on one line, with terminating newline)
HTH
dt
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