Re: Automount external hard drive?
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Mike Burger
<mburger(a)bubbanfriends.org>
wrote:
> Instead of having this in your fstab, you might want to try using the
> automount daemon handle this drive. That way, it's only mounted when
> you
> actually need it, and unmounts after a period of inactivity.
>
> Works for me...I use external drives for my Mondo backups, so that I
> can
> take the drives offsite.
That would work for me. Just to be sure: by automount daemon, you
mean autofs, right?
Yes. The "autofs" service runs the "automountd" daemon.
Do your automounted drives need to be fscked periodically? Is that
automatic, too? If so, is there a long pause when it needs to be done
before they're mounted and ready to be used? Seems like a 250 GB fsck
would be painful when it's on-demand mounting.... (Mine are normal
ext3, by the way.)
The frequency of need to fsck is usually determined by a setting that can
be changed (or disabled) using tune2fs. I have not had to fsck a
drive/filesystem on my removable drives due to any errors...just because
the system told me that it had been mounted too many times and needed to
be checked.
Thanks, just want to make sure I'm doing this right!
So far, so good, it seems.
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