Re: [CentOS] how to automount usb drive

2010-03-25 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:14:59 +1100 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > adjust the following to your needs > > /dev/sdd1 /mnt/usb ext3 dev,auto,nouser,rw,sync 0 0 > > > Just be careful on boot up, I had trouble on boot when the drive > was already connected ... it wasnt recognized. I had t

Re: [CentOS] how to automount usb drive

2010-03-25 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
As for the mouting (and unmouting) you're backup script needs to make sure the drive is UN-mounted at the end, e.g. # flush the buffers sync # unmount umount /mnt/usb On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 03:52:29PM -0700, Bazooka Joe (fastf...@gmail.com) wrote: > I have a server with no desktop - just cl

Re: [CentOS] how to automount usb drive

2010-03-25 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
adjust the following to your needs /dev/sdd1 /mnt/usb ext3 dev,auto,nouser,rw,sync 0 0 Just be careful on boot up, I had trouble on boot when the drive was already connected ... it wasnt recognized. I had to put up a boot delay onto the kernel command line to make sure the drivers where al

[CentOS] how to automount usb drive

2010-03-25 Thread Bazooka Joe
I have a server with no desktop - just cli that i need to have a user plug in a usb hd and would like it to automount to a consistent directory so I can schedule a backup. The user can rotate the usb drives and it all just works. Any ideas how automate so that say /media/backup mounts to any usb