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 see......i was thinking that the files needed for the system to start
would be verified or accounted for early in the boot process but I
obviously don't know enough about the boot process to comment further....
If I remember correctly, auto-mounting in FC6 works better if the
partition has a name. If the NTFS partition was names SHARED, then
the drive partition would get mounted on /media/SHARED. This also
works in later versions. Changing the permissions and mount options
different than using fstab, and involves learning a different set of
rules. But tools are being developed to make it easier.
If FC6 supports automounting the drive then why was an entry in fstab
needed in the first place?
Am i missing something that should be obvious here?
Max
Because options other then the default ones are wanted.
The default is to automount the drive when hotplugged but the OP wants
to do it manually?
I seem to be suffering from a serious lack of knowledge and imagination....
HI HO HI HO Its off to google i go(to learn more about the boot process,
i don't think any amount of googling will tell me the OP reason for not
letting the drive automount...if you don't want it mounted then unplug
it or if it is always there then let it mount at boot time)!!
Max
