On 24 March 2014 11:01, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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). > > Third time is a charm. It's not the extra "," ; having a "," at the end of the mount options in fstab doesn't have any effect i.e. mounting the device works. The error "mount: /mnt/Backup: mount failed: Invalid argument" is due to the device not being present in the system, which is correct but the message is confusing as lee said (apparently confused more than others :)). > -- >>> 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 > -- Ahmad Samir
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