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#1 2010-03-18 19:38:58
- demian
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mount usb hdd automatically at or better after startup
Hi,
i wanted to mount my external harddrive shortly after archlinux has booted into GUI so it doesn't slow down the boot process.
I was thinking about something like (sleep 10 && modprobe usb-storage && mount /media/usbhdd) & in rc.local but that didn't work for me.
That's not my only concern though because I can't even get the drive to automatically mount at startup via fstab entry.
I tried this and many variations:
/dev/disk/by-uuid/DEFC3BD4FC3BA5A5 /media/usbhdd auto rw,user 0 0Any thoughts on how i get the drive to at least mount at startup via fstab or even better in form of some script shortly after the boot process is almost finished?
Thanks,
demian
Update: Solution is
(sleep 8 && mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/disk/by-uuid/DEFC3BD4FC3BA5A5 /media/usbhdd) &
or if you have an fstab entry
(sleep 4 && mount /media/usbhdd) &in rc.local
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#2 2010-03-18 19:53:14
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Re: mount usb hdd automatically at or better after startup
Any error messages, warnings, koans? Can you mount it manually?
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#3 2010-03-18 21:22:39
- demian
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Re: mount usb hdd automatically at or better after startup
Mounting manually works perfectly fine.
I usually SSH into the machine so i don't see if there are error messages at bootup. I guess i can check that tomorrow.
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#4 2010-03-18 23:03:15
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Re: mount usb hdd automatically at or better after startup
Perhaps using /etc/rc.local it can be mounted.
Try this code in r.c local:
mount -t ext3 /dev-by-uuid /media/usbhddMake a folder called "usbhdd" in media.
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#5 2010-03-19 00:14:07
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Re: mount usb hdd automatically at or better after startup
Have you tried creating a udev rule?
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#6 2010-03-19 09:43:24
- demian
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Re: mount usb hdd automatically at or better after startup
I didn't want to use udev rules because it's a server and i usually don't have switching periphals. I prefer having everything static.
I just tried using a udev rule though and it kinda crashed my system 
. Guess i made a typo in the .rules file or it simply didn't work with the current udev.
Anyhow, i found a solution.
In rc.local:
(sleep 8 && mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/disk/by-uuid/DEFC3BD4FC3BA5A5 /media/usbhdd) &Since i have an fstab entry, i now use (sleep 4 && mount /media/usbhdd) &.
I don't know why it didn't work before though, when i tried it with (sleep 10 && modprobe usb-storage && mount /media/usbhdd) &. Probably bad syntax or because of the modprobe insertion.
Anyway thanks guys!
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demian
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