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<pre wrap="">So a few more questions:
1. The behavior I want is: if the disk is in the machine, it should be
mounted. If it's not, it shouldn't be mounted (and it shouldn't cause
the boot process to abort due to that). Is that possible with fstab
today?
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A couple of questions back to you...
Is this a "hot swap" or "removable media" disk? If so, the system should
be able to handle dynamic detecting/mounting (maybe with some further
tweaking; but the /ability/ exists, in principle).
Or, is this a disk you'd attach before powering the system up? If so, I'd
place this function in the bootscripts -- do a DETECT before attempting a
MOUNT. In other words, DON'T do conditional disk-mounts via fstab, do it
commandline, in a boot-time script, that tests each "maybe" disk (or tests
the bus to see which-if-any exists) before attempting to mount it.
IMHO/YMMV/etc...
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The disk is hot swappable, on a 3ware 9550SX SATA controller. The
order of operations, when I change a disk:<br>
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1. Dismount it,<br>
2. Tell the controller I'm going to remove it,<br>
3. Pull it out.<br>
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Then, when I put a new disk in, I:<br>
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1. Tell the controller I just inserted a new disk (and tell it to
rescan the SATA controllers), and<br>
2. Mount the drive.<br>
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The disk is rotated with another disk. So I have Offsite-A and
Offsite-B. They are mounted on /mnt/offsite-a and /mnt/offsite-b
respectively. Only one disk is in the system at a time - the other
disk is in a safe deposit box.<br>
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If the system reboots, I'd like the currently mounted disk to be
remounted. I don't want the system to not come up because the other
disk isn't mounted.<br>
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If that's not possible to have the currently inserted disk
auto-mounted, then I'll either write a script for an end-user to mount
it (without root privileges), or I'll look at autofs or something.<br>
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Thanks for any suggestions,<br>
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-- Jeff<br>
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