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- From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
- Subject: Re: Mounting external drives (what's the scoop?)
- Message-ID: <BuLszF.JwA@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- References: <lux.716524009@sol.UVic.CA>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 05:09:00 GMT
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- lux@sol.UVic.CA (Michael O'Henly) writes:
-
- > Let's say I power up the system. It goes through its usual
- >startup procedure. Among other things, it looks for disks and (in the
- >verbose startup display) prints some info about all three drives. Then
- >it halts at the login screen. Fine.
-
- > So I log in. When the browser window opens, there's a brief
- >pause while the system spins up the two external drives -- then icons
- >for the external drives appear on the shelf. At this point (I figure),
- >the external drives are mounted. Fine again.
- Not really. They're getting mounted to /volumelabel by
- autodiskmount. This only happens when someone logs in on the
- console, as you have found.
-
- > But when I telnet to the machine and log in under the same
- >account, the external drives are _not_ mounted. No matter what I do
- >(not much, considering my limited knowledge of Unix), I can't "see"
- >those drives.
- You need to add entries to /etc/fstab for these drives. (not netinfo
- fstab, but the actual flat file, because this is read before netinfo
- is even run in the /etc/rc file)
-
- Your externals are probably /dev/sd1a and /dev/sd2a. So you would
- append to your /etc/fstab:
-
- /dev/sd1a /external1 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
- /dev/sd2a /external2 4.3 rw,noquota 0 3
-
- Of course, you can change /external1 to whatever you want it mounted
- on each time you reboot.
- If you're logged into the console, you'll have to reboot for these
- changes to take effect. If you're on remote, you can do mount -av
- probably. (as root)
- --
- David Lemson (217) 244-1205
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