On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@(protected):
>
> On Thursday 20 March 2008, Dan Cowsill wrote:
> > Right, so I have an external USB hard drive always hooked up to my
> > machine. I've a listing in /etc/fstab to mount it at boot.
> > Unfortunately, the drive does not boot because localmount can't find
> > /dev/sda1. Now, after the boot process I can find /dev/sda1 and
> > mount the drive just fine, leading me to believe that localmount
> > tries to mount the drive without populating /dev with USB devices.
> >
> > How could I resolve this?
>
> The canonical way is of course to use udev to run a mount script as soon
> as the usb drive's device is created. This is hard and requires much
> googling.
>
> The hackish, kludgy, totally not recommended method that always works is
> to put a call to 'mount -a' in /etc/local.d/local.start
>
> :-)
>
>
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> Alan McKinnon
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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>

http://gentoo-wiki.com/UDEV

Am I on the right track here?

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Dan Cowsill
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