On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 00:24 -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:19 PM, James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:15:55PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: > >> I want to use an external USB hard drive and mount it as /library at > >> boot time. I have added a line in /etc/fstab > >> > >> /dev/sda1 /library ext3 defaults 0 0 > > > > Might you instead mount by UUID or LABEL? > > > > I will try this tomorrow. > > >> However, this won't mount at boot time. > > > > There's no auto in the fourth field. > > > > I changed that to auto but that does not work either. Here's the other > interesting thing. The USB drive shows up under lsusb but is not auto > mounted. df -h doesn't show it. mount -a results in a "/dev/sda1 does > not exist". Then if I unplug the USB cable and plug it back in, the > drive gets recognized and automounts twice. Once at the /library > mountpoint and once at the /mnt/usb0 mountpoint. Could be a conflict > between fstab and udev?
The package usbmount is reason for the behaviour you are seeing. http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/martin/usbmount.git/ Jerry _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel