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Mounting USB HDs the same every time.I have 4 USB hard drives on my server in my basement. The power So I have to go back and reconfigure my samba.conf file, not a huge Thanks for the help. -Eric -- Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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Mounting USB HDs the same every time.
On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 02:45:59PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote:
> I have 4 USB hard drives on my server in my basement. The power
> went out the other night for about 30 seconds and when the server came
> back online, most of my Samba shares where messed up. I figured out
> what happened was that the drives were not initialized in the same order
> as they were when I setup the shares. Now a drive that used to be
> /media/usb0 was say /media/usb1.
>
> So I have to go back and reconfigure my samba.conf file, not a huge
> deal, but still a pia. Is there anyway to make it so that the drives
> will always be named correctly upon rebooting of the server and
> mounted? I think it needs to be done in fstab is that correct? The
> other issue I have is that I always have to actually click on each drive
> before it is able to be used by anyone else. Not sure why, but I don't
> think the drives are getting mounted at bootup.
>
Use volume label names. Name the volume with the tools for the specific
filesystem (ext2, JFS, etc) then use LABEL= in fstab and with the mount
command. The the respective man pages.
Doug.
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Mounting USB HDs the same every time.
On 06/30/07 14:04, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 02:45:59PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote:
>> I have 4 USB hard drives on my server in my basement. The power
>> went out the other night for about 30 seconds and when the server came
>> back online, most of my Samba shares where messed up. I figured out
>> what happened was that the drives were not initialized in the same order
>> as they were when I setup the shares. Now a drive that used to be
>> /media/usb0 was say /media/usb1.
>>
>> So I have to go back and reconfigure my samba.conf file, not a huge
>> deal, but still a pia. Is there anyway to make it so that the drives
>> will always be named correctly upon rebooting of the server and
>> mounted? I think it needs to be done in fstab is that correct? The
>> other issue I have is that I always have to actually click on each drive
>> before it is able to be used by anyone else. Not sure why, but I don't
>> think the drives are getting mounted at bootup.
>>
>
> Use volume label names. Name the volume with the tools for the specific
> filesystem (ext2, JFS, etc) then use LABEL= in fstab and with the mount
> command. The the respective man pages.
Or UUIDs.
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/522#comment_15
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Mounting USB HDs the same every time.
"Eric A. Bonney" writes:
> I have 4 USB hard drives on my server in my basement. The power
> went out the other night for about 30 seconds and when the server came
> back online, most of my Samba shares where messed up. I figured out
> what happened was that the drives were not initialized in the same
> order as they were when I setup the shares. Now a drive that used to
> be /media/usb0 was say /media/usb1.
> So I have to go back and reconfigure my samba.conf file, not a huge
> deal, but still a pia. Is there anyway to make it so that the drives
> will always be named correctly upon rebooting of the server and
> mounted?
With udev, you have a permanent name under /dev/disk/by-id
> I think it needs to be done in fstab is that correct?
Use link provided by udev instead of /media/usb*
> The other issue I have is that I always have to actually click on
> each drive before it is able to be used by anyone else. Not sure
> why, but I don't think the drives are getting mounted at bootup.
The last field on your fstab line must be 2 instead of 0. But be sure
that your usb drive are powered on when you boot.
HTH
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Dominique Dumont
"Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they
need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner
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