[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#524094: Info received (Bug#524094: Acknowledgement (base: Sometimes usb disk fails to mount on boot))

[Dr. Alex Sheppard]

Well, now i still have the problem as i originally described it - a 
'sometimes' problem that seems to be related to the time it takes the 
disk to 'wake up.'

AFTER booting doing '/etc/init.d/mountall.sh start' works fine, so that 
script is fine now.

If i reboot the system such that it is starting up with the disk already 
'awake' it mounts fine.



Dr. Alex Sheppard wrote:
> After digging around in the scripts in /etc/init.d i found this in 
> mountall.sh:
>
>
>        #
>        # Mount local file systems in /etc/fstab.
>        #
>        mount_all_local() {
>            mount -a -t 
> nonfs,nfs4,smbfs,cifs,ncp,ncpfs,coda,ocfs2,gfs,gfs2 -O no_netdev
>         }
>
>
> Now that function is supposed to mount all local filesystems?? But it 
> will only mount the ones of the specified types, and the list omits 
> common types like ext2 and ext3 (my problem partitions being ext3).
>
> So i modified that section to look like this:
>
>        #
>        # Mount local file systems in /etc/fstab.
>        #
>        mount_all_local() {
>            mount -a -O no_netdev
>        }
>
> ... and my problem is solved.
>
>
> Am i overlooking something here - is there a downside to my fix?? I 
> don't understand why the filesystem types were explicitly listed in 
> the first place??
>
>
> Alex
>
>
>
>
>
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Dr. Alex Sheppard
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