Hi,
I've been using linux on my laptop for a year, and installed gentoo a month
ago. Since I have a 7 gig partition for gentoo, i decided to
move /tmp/portage to my external hardrive, and /root/.ccache as well. And
write a script that monitors when the external hard drive is attached and
fixes the symlinks.
My external hard disk is partitioned into three: sda1 (vfat), sda2(swap, not
used), and sda3 (jfs).
I was using subfs, but it was messing up copying files in konqueror from my
harddisk to my mp3 player (usb on sdb1). It was also giving some troubles
with my external harddrives. so I thought let's see what supermount can do
(since it's easier to setup than autofs).
so here's my current fstab:
/dev/hda3 /boot ext3 defaults,noatime
1 2
/dev/hda6 / jfs noatime
0 1
/dev/hda5 none swap sw
0 0
/dev/hda1 /windows/c auto nouser,ro,uid=1000
0 0
/dev/hda2 /windows/d auto user,rw,uid=1000
0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom subfs fs=cdfss,ro,users
0 0
none /mnt/external0 supermount
dev=/dev/sda1,fs=auto,--,exec,rw,sync 0 0
#none /mnt/external01 supermount dev=/dev/sda3,fs=auto
0 0
none /mnt/external1 supermount dev=/dev/sdb1,fs=auto
0 0
none /mnt/external2 supermount dev=/dev/sdc1,fs=auto
0 0
/dev/sda3 /mnt/external01 subfs
fs=jfs,dev,users,rw,exec 0 0
#/dev/sdb1 /mnt/external1 subfs
fs=floppyfss,uid=1000,rw,users 0 0
#/dev/sdc1 /mnt/external2 subfs
fs=floppyfss,uid=1000,rw,users 0 0
Here're the problems I'm having:
1) i can't mount /dev/sda3 using supermount. It never seems to get mounted.
running 'mount' will give it as mounted using supermount, but when I
'cat /proc/fs/supermount/subfs', i get that it is unmounted even when I am
in /mnt/external01. Obviously, /mnt/external01 contains nothing.
2) I want to be able to unplug the external hard disk, and then plug it again.
But when I do that, sda becomes sdb, and /mnt/external1 has what is supposed
to be on /mnt/external0. Doing 'cat /proc/fs/supermount/subfs' again gives me
that /dev/sda1 is still mounted, and now /dev/sdb1is mounted as well.
Shouldn't /dev/sda1 be unmounted automatically when nothing is accessing the
directory (i checked that with lsof)?
Thanks,
Jad.
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