"Eric A. Bonney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have 4 USB hard drives on my server in my basement. The power > went out the other night for about 30 seconds and when the server came > back online, most of my Samba shares where messed up. I figured out > what happened was that the drives were not initialized in the same > order as they were when I setup the shares. Now a drive that used to > be /media/usb0 was say /media/usb1.
> So I have to go back and reconfigure my samba.conf file, not a huge > deal, but still a pia. Is there anyway to make it so that the drives > will always be named correctly upon rebooting of the server and > mounted? With udev, you have a permanent name under /dev/disk/by-id > I think it needs to be done in fstab is that correct? Use link provided by udev instead of /media/usb* > The other issue I have is that I always have to actually click on > each drive before it is able to be used by anyone else. Not sure > why, but I don't think the drives are getting mounted at bootup. The last field on your fstab line must be 2 instead of 0. But be sure that your usb drive are powered on when you boot. HTH -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
