On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Sergey Manucharian <sergeym@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > If it is always connected, I would put a line on /etc/fstab so it is mounted as any other ordinary partition. If it is not always connected, I would make a script and put it in /etc/rc.d. The script would be responsible to look if the disk is attached and mount it. It would be good to use some udev rules to make a fixed symlink for the disk, so the script has a fixed target to find. -- ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto ------------------------------------------- Emo Philips - "I was the kid next door's imaginary friend."
