Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:47:46 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Robert Davison <rob_27_preston@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automount Message-ID: <44k61bn04t.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <989739.2161.qm@web25008.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> (Robert Davison's message of "Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:34:03 %2B0000 (GMT)") References: <989739.2161.qm@web25008.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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Robert Davison <rob_27_preston@yahoo.co.uk> writes: > I've just installed an external SCSI hard drive in the form of a sun StorEdge. All is working well. > > The StorEdge has two drives called da0 and da1 respectivly. > > I've put entries into /etc/fstab so that they are mounted on boot as /s and /t. My question is....... > > If I dont have the StorEdge running 24/7 and I reboot the server, the boot process fails when mounting the file systems as /s /t can not be reached. > > Is there anyway of writing an automount line in fstab that is smart enough to know that if the /s and /t are not reachable then continue with the boot process without stopping. My fstab enty is... > > /dev/da0s1d /s ufs rw 0 0 > > I see that the cdrom has the entry > > /dev/cd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > > Is it simply a case of changing the mount option to rw,noauto ?? To start with, yes. If you don't use "noauto", then the disk *has* to be there at boot. You might want to put in some devfs rules to mount the disks when they show up. Or an automounter.
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