On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Villalovos, John L wrote: > I've been looking through the email list and I haven't found this out > yet :( > > I have a USB Hard disk and it works great. I can mount it easily once > everything is booted up. > > The problem is that if I put it in /etc/fstab to be mounted on boot up > the usb modules are not yet loaded into the kernel. So there is no > /dev/sda1 available. > > So I am assuming that I need to get usb-storage to be insmod or modprobe > in before the "Mounting local filesystems" part runs. > > Can anyone give me a clue on how to do this? Make sure you have the hotplug package installed and then use devlabel to register it with a --automount arg. http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-devlabel.html might be of use, even though it is for RHEL. .............Tom
