<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hex Star</b> <<a href="mailto:hexstar@gmail.com">hexstar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="direction: ltr;">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! :-)
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</div></blockquote></div>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! :-)