Bug#583954: fstab doesn't mount external USB-drive, but mount -a does

2010-06-04 Thread Olivier Berger
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:34:01PM +0200, André Fliß | Planet Groove Productions wrote: > While booting Debian does not recognize the external USB-harddisk. It is not > mounted. > I've been hit by the same problem, and seemed to find a workaround by using package usbmount. It's not perfect, b

Bug#583954: fstab doesn't mount external USB-drive, but mount -a does

2010-05-31 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
This is probably because of the fundametal problem with the current boot system in Debian, and the fact that the Linux kernel have become event based and it is not possible to know in advance when a device will be available during boot. It is basicly a race condition during boot because the kernel

Processed: Re: Bug#583954: fstab doesn't mount external USB-drive, but mount -a does

2010-05-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 583954 general Bug #583954 [fstab ??] fstab doesn't mount external USB-drive, but mount -a does Warning: Unknown package 'fstab' Bug reassigned from package 'fstab ??' to 'general'. > -- Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you