Topic: Howto mount an USB harddrive to an Ibay (works after boot)

[milaweb]

Hi

I mount an USB Harddisk with this command

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#mount /dev/sda1 /home/e-smith/files/ibays/filserver/files
and that works very good, but how do i set this up in eg fstab, so that it will work after reboot?
I have searched the forum, and i have tried this:

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/dev/sda1               /home/e-smith/files/ibays/filserver/files auto auto,defaults 0 0


What am i doing wrong here?

[mmccarn]

I have added 'mount /dev/sda1' to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, and my drive seems to remount whenever I reboot.

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after labelling my external disk and editing fstab to say LABEL=blah in the device column, I had to change /etc/rc.d/rc.local to say mount LABEL=blah instead of 'mount /dev/sda1'
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I *think* I saw a note once that fstab is processed before the usb subsystem is active (?)

[SoftDux]

Using the LABEL option is a much safer way of doing this. The reason being, that if you had 2 / 3 USB drives, it could change the devices, so by using LABEL, it will always mount the same HDD in the same place