From: Ian Forde <ianforde at gmail.com> > On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 14:19 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > --On Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:36 AM -0600 Robert Nichols > > > Looks like that's about all you can do. USB devices aren't available > > > until hotplug discovers them, and that's proceeding in parallel with the > > > rest of the boot sequence. Be sure to put a timeout in that loop lest it > > > hang forever if that external device is absent. > > Even better would be to make the script event-driven and launched by the > > hotplug process. Then there's no busy-wait. > Since the OP is looking to have their USB drive mounted before mythtv's > backend process starts up, I'd recommend disabling the mythbackend > startup script: > > chkconfig mythbackend off > > Then doing a manual mount in /etc/rc.local, followed by starting > mythbackend. > > /sbin/mount /dev/sdb1 /wherever > /sbin/service mythbackend start > > Of course, I wouldn't recommend using a USB drive for storing myth > recordings, as it eventually bite you due to USB2's limited bandwidth... > > -I (also a mythtv user!) Hum... hoping in in the middle of the conversation but... I am mounting a usb disk through fstab; and the daemon (bacula) using it never complained... Aren't the filesystems mounted (rc.sysinit?) before most daemons...? Otherwise, just create a mounting init script with a starting priority lower than mythbackend. JD