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 Very odd. "all other drives specified in fstab", this includes disks *in* your system containing your /, /home etc? Would you mind filing a bug report? maybe also include your kind of hardware (is it on something very slow? usb?) Dieter
