On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 18:40 +0100, Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote: > I have an external 250 GB hard disk that I use for backup. I use Gnome > and when I log into Gnome it automounts. But if I am not logged in > Gnome it is not mounted. I'd like to have it mounted all the time. I'd > like to be able to get the backups running even if no user is logged > in. > > I have it formatted with ext3. > > One way I understand it can be done is to enter a line in /etc/fstab. > I entered the following line: > > /dev/sdb1 /media/Backup ext3 auto,hotplug,defaults 1 > > (I have a physical /media/Backup dir created with the right > permissions). /media is managed by the auto-mounting system. I'd be inclined to mount manually defined things elsewhere. Also, I'd use options more like other mount points. For example, my homespace is mounted thus: LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2 So try something like: LABEL=backup /backup ext3 defaults 1 2 (Tune lable names and mount points to suit yourself.) Of course, you'll strike problems if you try to boot up without it connected: There'll be some delay during booting while it attempts to mount it, but then eventually aborts when it can't. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
