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

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On Sun, 7 May 2006 16:19:23 -0700
"Hex Star" <hexstar at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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! :-)

I have a firewire interface on my laptop (with FC4). When I connect to
an external firewire drive, the drive is automounted under /media. This
is the same behavior as USB. Howewer, unlike USB, I do not get a drive
icon on the (gnome) desktop.

I believe that mounting is accomplished automatically by hotplug. You
might want to take a look in /etc/hotplug. There are a bunch of scripts
and configuration files there.

With a USB card reader, the behavior is as follows:

1)	Connect card reader to computer. Mount points will be 
	automatically created by hotplug in /etc/fstab.

2)	Insert CF card into reader. Card will be automounted
	by hotplug.

There are several components that make everthing work. Hotplug is used
by the kernel. Hal is used by gnome to connect to hotplug.

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