Mount external USB disk at boot up
Tim
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Tue Mar 20 22:01:59 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 18:40 +0100, Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote:
> I have an external 250 GB hard disk that I use for backup. I use Gnome
> and when I log into Gnome it automounts. But if I am not logged in
> Gnome it is not mounted. I'd like to have it mounted all the time. I'd
> like to be able to get the backups running even if no user is logged
> in.
>
> I have it formatted with ext3.
>
> One way I understand it can be done is to enter a line in /etc/fstab.
> I entered the following line:
>
> /dev/sdb1 /media/Backup ext3 auto,hotplug,defaults 1
>
> (I have a physical /media/Backup dir created with the right
> permissions).
/media is managed by the auto-mounting system. I'd be inclined to mount
manually defined things elsewhere. Also, I'd use options more like
other mount points. For example, my homespace is mounted thus:
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
So try something like:
LABEL=backup /backup ext3 defaults 1 2
(Tune lable names and mount points to suit yourself.)
Of course, you'll strike problems if you try to boot up without it
connected: There'll be some delay during booting while it attempts to
mount it, but then eventually aborts when it can't.
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