On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 09:44 -0700, Reid Rivenburgh wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Reid Rivenburgh <reidr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > That made me rethink the idea of using autofs to handle mounting. > > There were two reasons I wasn't using it: > > > > 1. I'm not sure how autofs, with its potential for frequent > > mounts/unmounts, works with e2fsck. If the USB drive (ext3) is > > configured to run e2fsck every N mounts, will it be done under autofs? > > If it does, would autofs just wait until the e2fsck is finished > > before mounting? I guess the best thing to do in that case would be > > to configure the filesystem to be checked after some period of time, > > not after some number of mounts. I'm still not clear on this. > > > > 2. The drive would usually be found as /dev/sdd or /dev/sde, but > > especially with the disconnecting/reconnecting issue where it'd bounce > > between the two, it wasn't predictable. I thought you had to enter > > one of them in the autofs config file, but it turns out you can enter > > the drive's UUID or filesystem label, neither of which change. Cool, > > that fixes it! Here's my auto.misc entry: > > > > disk2 -fstype=ext3 :/dev/disk/by-uuid/a95.... > > > > You could also use /dev/disk/by-label, but my labels have slashes in > > them, and the dev path had strange \\x2 characters in them so I went > > with uuid. > > Pardon following up to myself, but something just occurred to me. I > was thinking that autofs would be beneficial in that it would allow > the drive to go to sleep, if that's what it was doing. (It gets > pretty hot when always on, for one thing.) Autofs would just wake it > up when needed. But now I'm realizing that if it goes to sleep, it'll > probably disconnect, the kernel will lose any knowledge of it, and > autofs won't be able to wake it up after all. I guess I still need to > prevent it from going to sleep. Harumph! If it's getting hot, might it be under-powered? Maybe a couple of meter readings would be called for? Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
