On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:03:08 +0100 <hollunder@gmx.at> wrote:
An external drive can be rather reliably identified and always mounted at the same place using udev.
This is somewhat problematic on arch linux tough. For some reason the devices seem not to be created before mount runs although udev runs before it. This means that external drives do not get mounted along with all the other drives specified in fstab.
I personally wonder what the problem is since this method has worked on other distributions.
My workaround is simply another 'mount -a' in rc.local, at this point in boottime the devices are created.
Still this doesn't work reliably with one of my drives but this is a separate problem (slowness).
Philipp
Very odd. "all other drives specified in fstab", this includes disks *in* your system containing your /, /home etc? Would you mind filing a bug report? maybe also include your kind of hardware (is it on something very slow? usb?) Dieter