On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 17:31 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > max wrote: > > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >> max bianco wrote: > >>> 2008/4/2 Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >>>> max bianco wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> I am not sure what his fstab should look like but as far as using the > >>>>> mount command I have always found that you have to be root or have > >>>>> permission explicitly granted. I plug in my external drive and it just > >>>>> automounts for me, i don't remember doing anything special to get this > >>>>> to work, but apparently this was not the case in FC6, i have never > >>>>> used FC6. Hopefully he will let us know what happened. > >>>>> > >>>>> Max > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> FC6 would auto mount as well. But if you have an entry in > >>>> /etc/fstab for > >>>> the device, it will not get auto-mounted. > >>> > >>> shouldn't it mount if the "noauto" is removed from fstab? > >>> > >>> Max > >>> > >> If you remove the noauto, the init scripts will try to mount the > >> drive. The problem is, if the drive is not plugged in, the system will > >> not be able to mount it, and may not boot. (It is a USB drive.) If > >> there is an entry in /etc/fstab, then the hotplug auto-mounting will > >> not work. > > Why would the box fail to boot? Assuming the drive does not contain any > > system files needed at startup shouldn't it just make a note of the > > missing drive in a log and keep going. You hinted at something related > > to it being a USB drive..... > > > The OP said it was a USB drive. The problem is that the system has > no way of knowing what is on the drive, and will cause the system to > boot into the single user mode so you can fix the problem if the > drive is not there. I have an external USB drive permanently attached. If for some reason it's turned off, the boot process will log some errors and continue. This is my fstab line: LABEL=/xtra /xtra ext3 defaults 1 2 Note that it's ext3. ntfs-3g via FUSE may complicate things, I don't know. poc
