<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>I'm still having problems automounting a USB hard drive w/ 5 partitions on Karmic at boot time.<div><br></div><div>Here's the relevant portion of /etc/fstab (This worked fine under Jaunty):</div><div><br></div><div><div># /media/jupiter was on /dev/sdb5 during installation</div><div>UUID=5af75fba-045b-41c1-ae54-f7c5bc133694 /media/jupiter ext3 relatime 0 2</div><div># /media/mars was on /dev/sdb3 during installation</div><div>UUID=27655aac-f0fc-40df-9ba1-8412d584b5c5 /media/mars ext3 relatime 0 2</div><div># /media/mercury was on /dev/sdb2 during installation</div><div>UUID=08c89a6f-7c9c-4f59-b26d-e43921450ad9 /media/mercury ext3 relatime 0 2</div><div># /media/saturn was on /dev/sdb6 during installation</div><div>UUID=a21074d2-7e57-4676-aeda-c80b560d9c68 /media/saturn ext3 relatime 0 2</div><div># /media/venus was on /dev/sdb1 during installation</div><div>UUID=1968-2E97 /media/venus vfat utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1</div><div><br></div></div><div>None of the partitions are mounted at boot time.</div><div><br></div><div>I tried adding the following lines to /etc/rc.local</div><div><br></div><div><div>mount /media/mercury</div><div><div>mount /media/mars</div><div>mount /media/jupiter</div><div><div><div>mount /media/saturn</div><div><div>mount /media/venus</div><div><br></div><div>When I do this, mount returns the following (relevant lines):</div><div><div><br></div><div>/dev/sdb3 on /media/mars type ext3 (rw,relatime)</div><div>/dev/sdb2 on /media/mercury type ext3 (rw,relatime)</div><div>/dev/sdb6 on /media/saturn type ext3 (rw,relatime)</div><div>/dev/sdb1 on /media/venus type vfat (rw,utf8,umask=007,gid=46)</div><div><br></div><div>(note that /dev/sdb5 is not listed)</div><div><br></div><div>but the partitions aren't mounted.</div><div><br></div><div>If I then issue sudo mount -a the drives are mounted but thru /dev/sdc*</div><div><br></div><div><div>/dev/sda2 on /home type ext3 (rw,relatime)</div><div>/dev/sda1 on /windows type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)</div><div>/dev/sdb3 on /media/mars type ext3 (rw,relatime)</div><div>/dev/sdb2 on /media/mercury type ext3 (rw,relatime)</div><div>/dev/sdb6 on /media/saturn type ext3 (rw,relatime)</div><div>/dev/sdb1 on /media/venus type vfat (rw,utf8,umask=007,gid=46)</div><div>/dev/sdc5 on /media/jupiter type ext3 (rw,relatime)</div><div>/dev/sdc3 on /media/mars type ext3 (rw,relatime)</div><div>/dev/sdc2 on /media/mercury type ext3 (rw,relatime)</div><div>/dev/sdc6 on /media/saturn type ext3 (rw,relatime)</div><div>/dev/sdc1 on /media/venus type vfat (rw,utf8,umask=007,gid=46)</div><div><br></div><div>I'm still looking for a solution that automounts the USB drive at startup (or at least by the time KDE launches).</div><div><br>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>