[CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?
Jobst Schmalenbach
jobst at barrett.com.au
Thu Feb 11 00:26:53 UTC 2010
There is a kernel option you can give to solve
this problem, in /boot/grub/grub.con add to the end
of the kernel line:
rootdelay Xs
where x is the amounty of time to wait before
/root is mounted, however this is valid for
everything else as well.
play with X until you get it right.
Jobst
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 02:15:25PM +0100, Mogens Kjaer (mk at crc.dk) wrote:
> I have a CentOS 5 machine with an external 500G USB disk,
> formatted with JFS.
>
> How do I get this to mount automatically at boot time?
>
> If I add to /etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/sdb1 /var/video jfs defaults 1 2
>
> fsck.jfs complains at boot time:
>
> Error: Cannot open device /dev/sdb1
>
> Usage: fsck.jfs ...
>
> ...
>
> Give root password for maintenance
> ...
>
> If I log in with the root password, /dev/sdb1
> is present, and I can run
>
> fsck.jfs -f /dev/sdb1
>
> without problems. After ctrl-D it reboots, and gives
> the above error again.
>
> I have to log in as root, remount,rw / and remove
> the /dev/sdb1 line from /etc/fstab to get it to boot.
>
> The problem is not related to JFS; it occurs with
> an external ext3 file system as well.
>
> How do I mount /dev/sdb1 automatically at boot?
>
> Mogens
>
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