On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 06:59:01AM -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Jack Stone wrote:
>
> > As the udev_retry script is after the mountfs script I tried adding an
> > extra_mount script after udev_retry which does a "mount -a".
>
> The 'mount -a' command will only mount those filesystems
> identified in /etc/fstab. And typically you would not put
> a USB device in /etc/fstab. Have you identified the USB
> drive in that file? If so, how do you ensure that the drive
> always has the same device filename every time?
>
> Admittedly, I do not have a lot of experience mounting
> a removable device at boot time, so this message may not
> be of much help.
>
Perhaps slightly OT to the problem, but to explain how to reference
usb devices in fstab:
I don't mount removable usb devices at boot time, but reliable
access to them is one of the reasons for udev. For example, to
mount a *particular* usb stick I used to have a rule
BUS=="usb", SYSFS{serial}=="07450D1404ED", KERNEL=="sd?1", NAME="%k"
SYMLINK="stick", MODE="0660", GROUP="goodusers", OPTIONS="last_rule"
(all on one line) which creates a /dev/stick symlink, so fstab can
have
/dev/stick /media/stick vfat noauto,user,rw 0 0
There are loads of other ways of configuring this in sysfs, e.g. by
SYSFS{manufacturer} - convenient if you have e.g. more than one
camera from the same manufacturer, but you cannot plug in more than
one at a time and expect it to work.
I now have everal usb sticks - this gets slightly more interesting,
some think they are "USB Flash Memory" and others think they are
"DISK 2.0" so I have two rules, both create /dev/stick. Again, I
have the limitation that i can only attach one stick at a time.
I used 'udevinfo -q path -n /dev/sdX' last time I needed to read the
information. I suppose it is now 'udevadm info -q path -n /dev/sdX'.
ĸen
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