On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 18:22 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > 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. > > > It could also be that my experience is out of date. I have not tried > this since I was bitten by it on a system I was troubleshooting. Or > it could be that using the LABEL=<label> form is more tolerant then > the <device> form. I guess I need to do some experimenting when I > have time. The LABEL=<label> form is to guarantee that the correct device will be mounted. /dev/<whatever> is unreliable for USB because devices can come online in random order. poc
