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Good Morning,
I have a Linux box with two external firewire drives hooked up. The
issue I am having is if I reboot or if we are hit by a power outage and I
need to bring the system back online, it fails because it does not
recognize the firewire drives. The error message says /dev/sda1 is an
invalid block device. To fix this problem, I just make a copy of
/etc/fstab and then remove the entries for the firewire drives, then reboot
system. After system comes back up, I then move the copied version of
/etc/fstab back and do a mount -a and the firewire drives are again useable.
This seems to be just a bit to much work since I have to do this as root
and since I am the only person with the password it could cause problems if
I am not here. (Everyone else has sudo privileges and there is no other
sysad types here). Is there something I can do where I can eliminate these
steps and have the system boot naturally and mount the firewire drives
during the boot process?
Thank you in advance,
Tom
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Good Morning,<br>
I have a Linux box with two external firewire drives hooked
up. The issue I am having is if I reboot or if we are hit by a
power outage and I need to bring the system back online, it fails because
it does not recognize the firewire drives. The error message says
/dev/sda1 is an invalid block device. To fix this problem, I just
make a copy of /etc/fstab and then remove the entries for the firewire
drives, then reboot system. After system comes back up, I then move
the copied version of /etc/fstab back and do a mount -a and the firewire
drives are again useable. <br>
This seems to be just a bit to much work since I have to do this
as root and since I am the only person with the password it could cause
problems if I am not here. (Everyone else has sudo privileges and there
is no other sysad types here). Is there something I can do where I
can eliminate these steps and have the system boot naturally and mount
the firewire drives during the boot process?<br><br>
Thank you in advance,<br>
Tom<br><br>
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