Execute a command before mounting what's in /etc/fstab - how?

[John Summerfield]

Chris G wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 08:53:14AM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 09:51 +0000, Chris G wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 11:59:26AM -0800, Michael Eager wrote:
>>>> Chris G wrote:
>>>>> I have a Freecom network disk which needs the following to be executed
>>>>> before I can mount it using an entry in /etc/fstab :-     echo 0 > 
>>>>> /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled
>>>>> Is there any neat way I can get this command executed during the boot
>>>>> sequence before the entries in /etc/fstab are mounted?
>>>> Drives are mounted in rc.sysinit.  You can add your
>>>> line before this happens.
>>>>
>>> ... but it'll get lost on next install, surely there's a "proper"
>>> place to do it.
>> Someone suggested putting the execution in the correct place
>> in /etc/rc.sysinit, which seemed right to me.
> 
> I've actually ended up putting it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, I have
> there:-
> 
>     modprobe cifs
>     echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled
>     mount /freecom
> 
> ... and in /etc/fstab I have:-
> 
>     //freecom/chris         /freecom                cifs noauto,user,password="" 0 0
> 
> I could put the whole mount command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local but I prefer
> having something explicit in /etc/fstab.
> 
> I would *hope* that /etc/rc.d/rc.local doesn't get overwritten by an
> upgrade or at least that it's copied before being overwritten.

It won't get clobbered, but IMV this isn't the right way.
man modprobe.conf

You can run arbitrary commands to install a module, so you could have 
both the echo and the modprobe there, and then auto should work in 
/etc/fstab



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