On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
