external drive not auto mounting (anymore)

nos09 · 2012-05-21 21:24:33

i have a external HDD for which I made an entry in fstab. I worked perfectly till now. After i installed udisks and wrapper 'devmon' all the other drive are now auto mounted but the one which has entry in fstab does not !

i believe fstab mounts it during the boot up and devmon mounts it during the awesome start up since I made devmon entry in .xinitrc. is it the udisks thats conflicting with fstab ?!?! i mean its unlikely to happen right ?

Inxsible · 2012-05-21 21:26:12

you don't need to make entries in fstab for external drives. remove the entry and try again.

nos09 · 2012-05-21 21:51:52

commenting fstab entry worked. but i thought fstab would mount it first and devmon would see it already mounted so it would let it alone .. lol

Inxsible · 2012-05-21 22:11:19

fstab is mainly reserved for internal drives. External drives and cd/dvd etc are not required to be in fstab since their names/mount points can change on the fly depending on how many external drives you have connected at that time. Look into mtab for more info.

Also mark your thread solved please.

snovik · 2012-05-22 10:47:23

Actually that is an interesting question. I have an external drive connected to my router and I share it on the router IP address (obviously fixed) via samba. Is it still a bad idea to use fstab in such case?

Sometimes but not always I have a re-mount problem coming back from hibernate or suspend. Will it be solved if I move mount to mtab?

Last edited by snovik (2012-05-22 10:48:29)

Inxsible · 2012-05-22 19:45:57

Coming back from hibernate or suspend is always iffy in my opinion. so I am not sure if it will fix your problem, but it wouldn't hurt trying.

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#1 2012-05-21 21:24:33

external drive not auto mounting (anymore)

#2 2012-05-21 21:26:12

Re: external drive not auto mounting (anymore)

#3 2012-05-21 21:51:52

Re: external drive not auto mounting (anymore)

#4 2012-05-21 22:11:19

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#5 2012-05-22 10:47:23

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Re: external drive not auto mounting (anymore)

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