On 24 March 2014 10:49, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 March 2014 21:39, lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: > >> Arthur Dent <misc.li...@blueyonder.co.uk> writes: >> >> > On Sun, 2014-03-23 at 16:20 +0100, Patrick Laimbock wrote: >> >> On 23-03-14 16:08, Arthur Dent wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> > Sorry for the noise. I guess I should open another thread, but does >> >> > anyone know how to auto-mount an external HD ONLY if it's present? >> >> >> >> Have a look at the 'nofail' option (see man fstab). Or add the 'noauto' >> >> option to the fstab entry for that HD and try to mount the HD in >> >> /etc/rc.local only if it's present. >> > >> > Thanks - I tried the nofail option. This is the line I have now: >> > UUID=BCD0A565D0A5269C /mnt/Backup ntfs-3g >> nofail,auto,noatime,rw, 0 0 >> > but trying a mount -a with the drive NOT present gives me: >> > mount: /mnt/Backup: mount failed: Invalid argument >> > (I haven't tried rebooting yet). >> > >> > Any ideas? >> >> One of the arguments is missing and thus considered as invalid? >> >> You might make a bug report because this error message is misleading. >> >> > You're right, I missed it before. There's an extra "," after rw in the > mount options. > > > I'll need to test that again, adding "," doesn't seem to make a difference on my box, could be something wrong with my setup or something I am not getting correctly (sorry for the noise). > -- >> Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) >> -- >> users mailing list >> users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct >> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >> > > > > -- > Ahmad Samir > -- Ahmad Samir
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