fscking too soon

[Karl Larsen]

Steinar Midtskogen wrote:
> I run Ubuntu 8.04 on an Asus EeePC 900, to which I've connected an
> external USB drive.  I've made an entry for it in /etc/fstab so it
> will mount at boot.
>
> However, during boot fsck usually fails to find the drive and the boot
> sequence stops asking for root password or ctrl-D, which is very
> annoying if I reboot remotely.  The drive is detected seconds later.
> I need to get fsck to wait until the USB drive becomes available.  How
> can I do this?
>
> My workaround for now is to use "0" (passno) in the sixth column of
> /etc/fstab and to do a mount -a in a script in /etc/init.d, but I'd
> like to do this in a cleaner way.
>
> I've tried to add the rootwait option to the kernel, but it doesn't
> make a difference.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>   
    Why use fstab at all? Ubuntu Hardy does a good job of automatic 
loading of USB devises. At least it does with my external hard drive and 
memory sticks.

Karl


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