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Greeny

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Registered: 2009-03-20

Posts: 2

External HDD not initialised in time for fstab

I think it's probably been encountered before but I'm looking for a foolproof solution, which googling has thus far not found.

I have a 1TB External Harddrive which i use to store all my media on.

I use MPD, which starts automatically on boot, therefore if my HDD is not mounted it cannot find the songs and well, it's a hassle mounting the HDD from terminal and fixing my musicdb.

I'm basically looking for a way of mounting the drive later than fstab, but hopefully before the MDB server starts up.

I use just Openbox as my WM, with no DE - so I wondered whether I could somehow mount it from ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh   - Although this will be run by my normal user and not root? So maybe it wouldn't work.

Any thoughts appreciated

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: External HDD not initialised in time for fstab

I normally don't start up my mpd in rc.conf at all.

I just have a shortcut in openbox which simply starts mpd and then sonata together

mpd && sonata

That way a single keybinding canget your music player started.

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Hrod beraht

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Registered: 2008-09-30

Posts: 186

Re: External HDD not initialised in time for fstab

I had a similar problem on a computer that did everything slowly and wouldn't boot the external drive via fstab.
I solved it by essentially re-fstab'ing from the /etc/rc.local file after the real ftstab ran.

/etc/rc.local

/bin/mount -a

Bob

Last edited by Hrod beraht (2009-03-21 00:18:44)

ruscook

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From: Sydney Australia

Registered: 2007-08-27

Posts: 105

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Re: External HDD not initialised in time for fstab

I have the same problem and get around it with the following in /etc/rc.local

# Backup plan to mount external home.
mount -t xfs /dev/disk/by-uuid/85e95c7b-5c4e-40d0-b53f-480401b3766a      /home

This gets home available before I need it, but not part of the normal mounting of /etc/fstab base file systems....

It would be nice to have a good fix for USB drives.

Russ

Greeny

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Registered: 2009-03-20

Posts: 2

Re: External HDD not initialised in time for fstab

I had a similar problem on a computer that did everything slowly and wouldn't boot the external drive via fstab.
I solved it by essentially re-fstab'ing from the /etc/rc.local file after the real ftstab ran.

/etc/rc.local

/bin/mount -a

Bob

Seems to have worked, cheers.