[Voyage-linux] (auto)mounting

[Giuseppe Barichello]

Il giorno Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:29:18 +0000 (UTC)
rickx <rickx at libero.it> ha scritto:

> Hi,
> 
> I've had a message saying "Mounting local volumes...failed" ever since I started
> the first time (few days ago). I'm using voyage 0.5.2 on an alix 2d2. It works
> wonderfully for all the rest (samba, cups, mt-daapd).
> 
> But I'd like to have an external usb drive to be mounted at boot time, so I added
> /dev/sda1	/disk1	ext3	defaults		0	0	
> /dev/sda3	none	swap	sw			0	0
> 
> As far as I understood, defaults means automount when booting...
> but it does not mount.
> 
> Other services (the ones above) need that drive to be mounted, so they will not
> work correctly if it is NOT. 
> mount -a mounts the drives without problems - once it is up and I logged in.
> 
> Can someone point me to the place to look or tell me why that error is shown? I
> allready found out it's generated in the auto_mountall.sh (or something like
> that) script. But I'm still missing how I can make sure this drive's partitions
> *are* mounted at boot time.
> Maybe it depends on this:
> mount -a -t nonfs,nfs4,smbfs,cifs,ncp,ncpfs,coda,ocfs2,gfs \ -O no_netdev
> 
> Can someone explain this? Why no ext2/3 there? When/where are those mounted? 
> 

This is my experience: maybe it helps?

http://list.voyage.hk/pipermail/voyage-linux/2007-September/001729.html

Greetings,

Giuseppe