On 24/02/13 06:24, Bill Davidsen wrote: ... > Yes, that was an attempt to avoid the hang on boot, what I really need > is more complex, and I may have to put it in rc.local to make it work, > although I will test on Fedora using the nofail option. As I look at the > RHEL world, I expect RHEL7 to be along before too long. Perhaps that > would satisfy all requirements. > It depends on what the 'nofail' option does if the UUID is present but > doesn't pass fsck, is it reported and ignored or does it hang the boot?
Hey Bill, I see you are after a RHEL solution, but does any of these things you tried work on Fedora 17 or 18 ? I wasn't able to do what you are trying to do on F16 or F17, either boot deciding it can't complete (which is really incorrect because the partitions needed to boot the machine and load user home dirs are mounted and usable - it's just the optional backup mount that isn't), or the drive not mounted at all. I also realized there is no hot-plug mounting, because it wasn't plugged after a user logged in. And if it hot plugged, then it' is mounted for just that user under /var/somewhere ... You would also want to ensure the drive isn't mounted if fsck was going to run. Doing it outside the boot process would be good, because then it wouldn't pause the boot process until your ~1TB drive is fscked... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
