[clue-tech] Re: Need help getting a firewire HD to automount during boot in Suse 10

[Hex Star]

On 5/6/06, Hex Star <hexstar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello, I have a HP NetServer LH3R running Suse 10 and I've put in a
> firewire PCI card and connected a firewire external HD to that card, linux
> sees and can interact with the HD fine but since I'm planning to install
> cPanel and would like to use the firewire drive as the clients home folder
> for added disk space I need the drive to be automounted during boot, so far
> I've tried adding "mount -rw /dev/hdb1 /websites"  (without the quotes of
> course) to /etc/rc.d/boot.local but that didn't work so I removed that and
> then tried adding "/dev/sdb1 /websites ext3 rw,auto,user,exec 0 0" (without
> the quotes of course) to /etc/fstab and now Suse sees the drive and knows
> the mountpoint should be /websites but despite auto being in the fstab file
> it's not auto mounting during the boot it's still not working :-(...can
> anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong and what I need to do to get this
> drive to auto mount during boot? I'm pulling my hair out trying to get this
> to work and would greatly appreciate any help you guys can provide me,
> thanks! :-)
>
Hmm actually I found something interesting, the firewire HD is being auto
mounted upon boot (revealed by typing mount in terminal), but oddly enough
it isn't mounting to the mount point I specified in /etc/fstab which is
/websites (and yes it exists and I can write to it), instead mount shows it
being mounted at /media/websites which I confirmed by copying a big file to
that location and indeed I heard the firewire HD working...even more
perplexing is the fact that KDE (running KDE on server until it goes public
at which time it'll be running cPanel and X will be removed) knows the drive
should be mounted at /websites (shown by looking in KDiskFree, it shows 0B
for the drives free space and such which is a sign it isn't mounted
according to KDE and it shows for the mountpoint /websites) and if I mount
the drive through Konquerer and then do mount, it shows the drive being
mounted once at /media/websites and then at /websites...very weird...o_O and
yes there's only one entry for the device in /etc/fstab...I even had a
friend vnc to the server and despite multiple tries he could not figure out
the cause of this weirdness...anyone experience this? Know how to fix this?
Would appreciate any tips you guys could provide, thanks! :-)
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