auto mount usb hard drive ntfs-3g

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nogues · Post by **nogues** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 12:28 pm

Hello everybody,
I'm running gentoo on my old powermac G4 under openbox. And I have an external usb hard drive. I can mount it with mount command. But I would like to mount it each time I start my computer. But if i modify fstab, I have errors at boot he don't find my hard drive.
How can I auto mount my usb hard drive?

thanks for your answers

Roman_Gruber · Post by **Roman_Gruber** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:15 pm

well

ntfs-3g should work for mounting

or mount -t ntfs-3g i think

some sort of idea, dont blame me, ok?

get the uuid of your harddisc and then write a line in /etc/fstab

with

uuid mountpoint filesystemtype and mouning folder

the uuid never changes and should be never identicals, because its a very long hex number

jongeek · Post by **jongeek** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:22 pm

Are your USB drivers compiled as modules or into the kernel ? If they are modules, they may not be loaded when the boot process tries to mount the filesystems listed in /etc/fstab. Try building them directly into the kernel.

nogues · Post by **nogues** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 3:02 pm

My usb drivers are in kernel.
and hal isn't installed, is it useful for my problem?

jongeek · Post by **jongeek** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 4:04 pm

nogues wrote:My usb drivers are in kernel.
and hal isn't installed, is it useful for my problem?

I'm not sure. I have an external firewire drive that is mounted at boot-time with no problems. I have the drivers built into the kernel, a line in /etc/fstab, and I do use hal. But I think the hal daemon is started after my filesystems are mounted.

Will you post your /etc/fstab, as well as the errors you see ?

snkmoorthy · Post by **snkmoorthy** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 5:38 pm

Try ivman here

http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Ivman