In <5quq37-nql....@ppp121-45-136-118.lns11.adl6.internode.on.net>, Arthur Marsh wrote: >Camaleón wrote, on 04/02/10 03:05: >> On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:04:26 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: >>> Camaleón wrote, on 03/02/10 21:52: >>>> You should not list your devices in fstab if you want to make use of >>>> your DE hotplug capabilities. >>> >>> As I just posted in another message in this thread, I'd like the USB >>> flash drive to be automatically mounted after fsck if the drive is >>> present at boot-up and automatically mounted without fsck if plugged in >>> after the machine is booted. >> >> As said, if you list the USB device in fstab, the system will try to >> mount it on every boot, whether is plugged or not. >> >>> I would also like the machine to boot fully if it is started without the >>> USB flash drive present. >> >> That should not happen at all (if the disk is not present it should log a >> warn, but the system should keep loading). It can be a bug. > >The response I received to >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=568200 suggest that the >responder thinks that running fsck on a non-existent device is the >proper behaviour /-:.
I tend to agree. /etc/fstab is for static file systems, where "static" means "always present in always the same location". I don't want any of my file systems in /etc/fstab to simply be "skipped" because their device isn't present -- I want a *LOUD* warning. Exceptions -- file systems I don't want checked get a passno of 0; file systems I don't want mounted get noauto flag. IMHO, you are using /etc/fstab wrong and you'd better suited to using some other method of fscking and mounting. Udev can run a command as soon as the device node is available, but be aware that udev blocks until the command is complete. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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