fscking too soon

[Mumia W.]

On 08/15/2008 06:26 AM, 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,

I would say that your current method of solving the problem is the 
correct one--unless you wish to delay the boot process.