[opensuse] Volume Mount Sequence
I am running OpenSuSE 10.3 with the 2.6 default kernel. I have four partitions on three external disk drives. Every time I reboot, not often but it happens, the partitions mount in what appears to be random order. One time, a partition will be mounted as '/media/Disk-2' and the next time 'media/Disk'. Since each one contains NFS exported folders, I have to manually change the pathnames, etc. As I said in another post with a related problem, this seems like a problem with a simple solution but the articles I've found so far go into theoretical kernel jargon, about 99% of which I don't understand. Can anyone point me to an easily understandable procedure to make the external drives mount to the same mount point every time? Any assistance will be sincerely appreciated. Don Henson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 11/29/2007 09:23 PM, Donald D Henson wrote:
Can anyone point me to an easily understandable procedure to make the external drives mount to the same mount point every time? Any assistance will be sincerely appreciated.
Try Yast, System, Partitioner, and give them a label, and mount them by label. That should fix it. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
On 11/29/2007 09:23 PM, Donald D Henson wrote:
Can anyone point me to an easily understandable procedure to make the external drives mount to the same mount point every time? Any assistance will be sincerely appreciated.
Try Yast, System, Partitioner, and give them a label, and mount them by label. That should fix it.
Did all that. According to the partitioner, the volume label is 'Float' but when I look at properties, the volume label has not changed. I get the feeling that I'm missing something really simple here. I just can't figure out what it is. Don Henson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 11/30/2007 05:35 AM, Donald D Henson wrote:
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
On 11/29/2007 09:23 PM, Donald D Henson wrote:
Can anyone point me to an easily understandable procedure to make the external drives mount to the same mount point every time? Any assistance will be sincerely appreciated.
Try Yast, System, Partitioner, and give them a label, and mount them by label. That should fix it.
Did all that. According to the partitioner, the volume label is 'Float' but when I look at properties, the volume label has not changed. I get the feeling that I'm missing something really simple here. I just can't figure out what it is.
Did you umount the device, and perhaps unplug and replug (assuming USB external drives), then let hal remount. It should load to the mount point /media/Float. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
On 11/30/2007 05:35 AM, Donald D Henson wrote:
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
On 11/29/2007 09:23 PM, Donald D Henson wrote:
Can anyone point me to an easily understandable procedure to make the external drives mount to the same mount point every time? Any assistance will be sincerely appreciated.
Try Yast, System, Partitioner, and give them a label, and mount them by label. That should fix it.
Did all that. According to the partitioner, the volume label is 'Float' but when I look at properties, the volume label has not changed. I get the feeling that I'm missing something really simple here. I just can't figure out what it is.
Did you umount the device, and perhaps unplug and replug (assuming USB external drives), then let hal remount. It should load to the mount point /media/Float.
I knew it was something simple. It was me. There are three entities involved: Label; Volume Name; and Gnome. Gnome renames 'label' to 'name' and then uses 'volume name' as a display name. I had them all confused. To make a long story short and to keep from confusing everyone, I now have all four volumes labeled, named, and mounting in a consistent sequence. Rebooting after making changes helped a lot. Thanks for everyone's help. Don Henson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-11-29 at 06:23 -0700, Donald D Henson wrote:
I am running OpenSuSE 10.3 with the 2.6 default kernel.
I have four partitions on three external disk drives. Every time I reboot, not often but it happens, the partitions mount in what appears to be random order. One time, a partition will be mounted as '/media/Disk-2' and the next time 'media/Disk'. Since each one contains NFS exported folders, I have to manually change the pathnames, etc.
As I said in another post with a related problem, this seems like a problem with a simple solution but the articles I've found so far go into theoretical kernel jargon, about 99% of which I don't understand. Can anyone point me to an easily understandable procedure to make the external drives mount to the same mount point every time? Any assistance will be sincerely appreciated.
You have to mount them using their volume label name or id, not the device node. Two samples, in fstab (manual mount, but automatic will also work): by label: LABEL=usb_sg60 /mnt/usb/usb_sg60 reiserfs noatime,user,noauto,acl,user_xattr 0 0 by id: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Kingston_DataTravelerCR_ad053f40c9f050-part1 /mnt/usb/Kingston vfat noauto,user,users,uid=cer,gid=users,fmask=0117,dmask=0007,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=437 0 0 To use a label you have of course to label them first. To use the id you have to determine which id it is - which is fairly simple. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHT4M3tTMYHG2NR9URAlICAJ0V+qPtfKxcymaIqc6NTy1cT61XCgCdHEzG KHxvpVbrp8nRZId9P+cfjtU= =7CIF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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