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?
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.)
Thanks, just want to make sure I'm doing this right!
reid