<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 March 2014 10:49, Ahmad Samir <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ahmadsamir3891@gmail.com" target="_blank">ahmadsamir3891@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">On 23 March 2014 21:39, lee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lee@yun.yagibdah.de" target="_blank">lee@yun.yagibdah.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div>Arthur Dent <<a href="mailto:misc.lists@blueyonder.co.uk" target="_blank">misc.lists@blueyonder.co.uk</a>> writes:<br>
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> On Sun, 2014-03-23 at 16:20 +0100, Patrick Laimbock wrote:<br>
>> On 23-03-14 16:08, Arthur Dent wrote:<br>
>> [snip]<br>
>> > Sorry for the noise. I guess I should open another thread, but does<br>
>> > anyone know how to auto-mount an external HD ONLY if it's present?<br>
>><br>
>> Have a look at the 'nofail' option (see man fstab). Or add the 'noauto'<br>
>> option to the fstab entry for that HD and try to mount the HD in<br>
>> /etc/rc.local only if it's present.<br>
><br>
> Thanks - I tried the nofail option. This is the line I have now:<br>
> UUID=BCD0A565D0A5269C /mnt/Backup ntfs-3g nofail,auto,noatime,rw, 0 0<br>
> but trying a mount -a with the drive NOT present gives me:<br>
> mount: /mnt/Backup: mount failed: Invalid argument<br>
> (I haven't tried rebooting yet).<br>
><br>
> Any ideas?<br>
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</div></div>One of the arguments is missing and thus considered as invalid?<br>
<br>
You might make a bug report because this error message is misleading.<br>
<span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>You're right, I missed it before. There's an extra "," after rw in the mount options.<br><br></div><div class=""><div>
</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'll need to test that again, adding "," doesn't seem to make a difference on my box, could be something wrong with my setup or something I am not getting correctly (sorry for the noise).<br>
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