On 24 March 2014 11:01, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 24 March 2014 10:49, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 23 March 2014 21:39, lee <lee(a)yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
>
>> Arthur Dent <misc.lists(a)blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
>>
>> > On Sun, 2014-03-23 at 16:20 +0100, Patrick Laimbock wrote:
>> >> On 23-03-14 16:08, Arthur Dent wrote:
>> >> [snip]
>> >> > Sorry for the noise. I guess I should open another thread, but
does
>> >> > anyone know how to auto-mount an external HD ONLY if it's
present?
>> >>
>> >> Have a look at the 'nofail' option (see man fstab). Or add the
>> 'noauto'
>> >> option to the fstab entry for that HD and try to mount the HD in
>> >> /etc/rc.local only if it's present.
>> >
>> > Thanks - I tried the nofail option. This is the line I have now:
>> > UUID=BCD0A565D0A5269C /mnt/Backup ntfs-3g
>> nofail,auto,noatime,rw, 0 0
>> > but trying a mount -a with the drive NOT present gives me:
>> > mount: /mnt/Backup: mount failed: Invalid argument
>> > (I haven't tried rebooting yet).
>> >
>> > Any ideas?
>>
>> One of the arguments is missing and thus considered as invalid?
>>
>> You might make a bug report because this error message is misleading.
>>
>>
> You're right, I missed it before. There's an extra "," after rw in
the
> mount options.
>
>
>
I'll need to test that again, adding "," doesn't seem to make a
difference
on my box, could be something wrong with my setup or something I am not
getting correctly (sorry for the noise).
Third time is a charm.
It's not the extra "," ; having a "," at the end of the mount
options in
fstab doesn't have any effect i.e. mounting the device works.
The error "mount: /mnt/Backup: mount failed: Invalid argument" is due to
the device not being present in the system, which is correct but the
message is confusing as lee said (apparently confused more than others :)).
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