On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:03:08 +0100 <hollunder@xxxxxx> wrote: .......... > An external drive can be rather reliably identified and always mounted > at the same place using udev. > > This is somewhat problematic on arch linux tough. > For some reason the devices seem not to be created before > mount runs although udev runs before it. > This means that external drives do not get mounted along with all the > other drives specified in fstab. > > I personally wonder what the problem is since this method has worked > on other distributions. > > My workaround is simply another 'mount -a' in rc.local, at this point > in boottime the devices are created. > > Still this doesn't work reliably with one of my drives but this is a > separate problem (slowness). > > Philipp > Folks, you are discussing how to deal with "noob questions" etc., but nobody paid attention to the more "deep" meaning of the initial question arisen by Philipp. I confirm the problem. So, how to mount an external HDD during the system start-up? Cheers, Sergey
