Re: How to mount USB drive at boot time
On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 17:36 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> I have a USB drive that is usually, though not always, connected to my
> desktop system.
>
>
> If it is connected to the system at boot time, the device path should be
> created and the drive should be mounted immediately, i.e. BEFORE any
> user logs in.
>
> If it is not connected at boot time, there should be no serious problem.
>
> If the drive is connected to a running system (on which it had not been
> previously connected), the device path should be created, and it should
> be mounted by root.
>
> Root should be able to unmount the drive, when it is mounted.
>
>
> I assume this should be done by either udev or hal -- HOW?
>
You may be able to do this just by putting the entry in /etc/fstab,
using the UUID of the filesystem to eliminate any dependency on device
name. I /think/ the hotplug will check, I can't easily go thru it myself
at this moment.
I don't think so. Here's my /etc/fstab:
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
...
UUID=9dd976ce-a988-42a2-857d-06c3079675e7 /media/usb-disk ext3 defaults 1 2
During boot I see these messages:
Mounting local filesystems [FAILED]
...
Mounting other filesystems: mountpoint /media/usb-disk does not exist.
And, in fact, the drive is not mounted.
BTW: Why is this so hard? Am I the only person who wants to do it?
BTW: I thought that the messages that appear on the monitor during boot
were saved in /var/log/messages . Apparently not. Are they saved
anywhere?
Thanks - jon