On 02/04/2010 02:15 PM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: ...
How do I mount /dev/sdb1 automatically at boot?
It turns out to be some sort of race condition:
If I modify /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:
... STRING=$"Checking filesystems" echo $STRING sleep 2 echo ls 1 ls -l /dev/sdb* sleep 1 echo ls 2 ls -l /dev/sdb* sleep 1 echo ls 3 ls -l /dev/sdb* sleep 1 echo ls 4 ls -l /dev/sdb*
then I get the following on startup:
Checking filesystems ls 1 ls: /dev/sdb*: No such file or directory ls 2 ls: /dev/sdb*: No such file or directory ls 3 brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 16 Feb 4 14:28 /dev/sdb brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 17 Feb 4 14:28 /dev/sdb1 ls 4 brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 16 Feb 4 14:28 /dev/sdb brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 17 Feb 4 14:28 /dev/sdb1
Then the machine boots normally.
I'll add a sleep loop to rc.sysinit that waits until /dev/sdb1 is available, unless someone has a better suggestion?
Mogens