Automount external hard drive?
Reid Rivenburgh
reidr at pobox.com
Mon Mar 3 22:15:02 UTC 2008
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org> wrote:
> Instead of having this in your fstab, you might want to try using the
> automount daemon handle this drive. That way, it's only mounted when you
> actually need it, and unmounts after a period of inactivity.
>
> Works for me...I use external drives for my Mondo backups, so that I can
> take the drives offsite.
That would work for me. Just to be sure: by automount daemon, you
mean autofs, right?
Do your automounted drives need to be fscked periodically? Is that
automatic, too? If so, is there a long pause when it needs to be done
before they're mounted and ready to be used? Seems like a 250 GB fsck
would be painful when it's on-demand mounting.... (Mine are normal
ext3, by the way.)
Thanks, just want to make sure I'm doing this right!
reid
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