> 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? Yes. The "autofs" service runs the "automountd" daemon. > 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.) The frequency of need to fsck is usually determined by a setting that can be changed (or disabled) using tune2fs. I have not had to fsck a drive/filesystem on my removable drives due to any errors...just because the system told me that it had been mounted too many times and needed to be checked. > Thanks, just want to make sure I'm doing this right! So far, so good, it seems. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update or send a blank email message to: site-update-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
