On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 10:47 -0600, Lonnie Olson wrote: > About mounting on boot, I highly doubt it will. Since it didn't auto- > mount the drive when you plugged it in (only set up the details for > you), it probably won't auto-mount at boot.
If you want to to have it automatically mounted at boot, you should
manually add it to /etc/fstab. The problem with removable devices is
that they can be assigned different device names each time they're
plugged in, so it would be better to use filesystem labels. In other
words:
mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda1 # format the disk
tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 /dev/sda1 # ~lart ext[23]
e2label /dev/sda1 backups # label the filesysetem
# update your fstab
echo "LABEL=backups /media/backups ext3 defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
> I would suggest mounting
> the drive in your backup script, and unmounting it at the end of the
> script.
This is an even better idea. The advantage is that if your system
crashes while the backup disk is mounted, it will be marked as unclean.
If it isn't mounted when the crash happens, you'll be able to get back
on your feet a little faster.
Of course, you'd want to use labels like i showed above so that the
script will work even if the device name changes.
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