Automounting a USB hard disk in Ubuntu server - how?

[Karl Larsen]

Chris G wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 06:56:02AM -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Chris G wrote:
>>     
>>> I have an external USB hard disk connected to an Ubuntu server 7.10
>>> system.  What do I need to do (install something?) to get it to
>>> automount?
>>>
>>> It currently works quite happily with the following line in
>>> /etc/fstab:-
>>>
>>>     /dev/sdb1       /backup         ext3    user,noauto        0 0
>>>
>>> but as it's quite slow to appear I can't remove the noauto I don't
>>> think as the drive isn't yet there when the system is booted.  In
>>> addition it's not *guaranteed* to be /dev/sdb1.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>     Take all that stuff you added to /etc/fstab out of the file. Let 
>> Ubuntu load it automatic and mine comes up fast as /media/disk. If you 
>> do not have an ext3 file system on the portable hard drive do it now.
>>
>>     
> The USB drive is already formatted ext3 and has backups on it (hence
> its name!).
>
> I've taken the line above out of /etc/fstab, when I reboot the system
> I see the following in dmesg:-
>
>     [   20.424000] usb-storage: device scan complete
>     [   20.424000] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SAMSUNG  HD501LJ PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS
>     [   20.424000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
>     [   20.424000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
>     [   20.424000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00
>     [   20.424000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
>     [   20.428000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
>     [   20.428000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
>     [   20.428000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00
>     [   20.428000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
>     [   20.428000]  sdb:<7>eth0: no IPv6 routers present
>     [   24.696000] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir at monad.swb.de).
>     [   24.820000] NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory
>     [   24.832000] NFSD: starting 90-second grace period
>     [   27.856000]  sdb1
>     [   27.856000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
>     [   27.856000] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
>
> .... and then nothing.  The disk doesn't get mounted, at least I can't
> see it anywhere and 'mount' doesn't report anything.
>
>
> I'm not convinced that things will get automounted (by default) in
> Ubuntu Server, remember there isn't any GUI running.
>
>   
    Well the Desktop isn't what controls the USB system. But it sure 
looks like your USB system is not working.

Karl


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