Hi. I'm still tweaking my setup with my external USB hard drive. It's generally working, but it still has this annoying habit of getting lost, with messages like these: Mar 3 10:33:33 pigpen kernel: usb 3-1: USB disconnect, address 4 It "only" happens every few days on average now. When it does happen, though, I manually umount, e2fsck, and mount it. I did create an fstab entry so can refer to it as "/mnt/disk2", but it's still a bit tedious, and the filesystem is unavailable until I notice that it's missing. So I'm wondering if there's a good way to automate this. I know about autofs, which should work, but that implies a lot of mounting and unmounting (depending on timeouts and access frequency), when logically this is a permanently attached drive. The ideal thing is if there was a way to perform my umount/e2fsck/remount whenever it gets lost. Shortly after getting lost, the kernel finds it again, so it seems analogous to unplugging and replugging the USB cable. Is there a proper fedora way of handling this? I run KDE, not GNOME, but it seems like any solution should be independent of desktop environment; i.e. at a lower level and not dependent on a user being logged in. If autofs is the best way to go, that's fine. (For the record, it was disconnecting much more frequently when I had my wireless router right next to it. I moved the router a few feet which seems to have helped some. It may be completely unrelated, who knows....) Thanks, Reid
