Mount all partions in fstab
Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Mount all partions in fstab
started by: henk1955
Posted by henk1955 on Jan. 11 2005,08:50
It is easy to mount all partions at startup.just add
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| echo "Fix-fstab ..." /opt/fix-fstab.sh echo "Mount all ..." mount -a |
there is one little problem, if you use a frugal or poormans install you should NOT mount the device mounted on /cdrom often this is /dev/sda1. ( it interferes with backup/restore). Therefor i made a script /opt/fix-fstab.sh that removes the dangerous line from fstab
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| #!/bin/bash FSTAB=/etc/fstab TMPDIR=/home/dsl # change noauto, to auto, mount for use of mount -a sed 's/ noauto,/ auto,/g' $FSTAB >$TMPDIR/fstab.1 # double mount of /cdrom will make filetool.sh backup fail # to prevent the double mount of the /cdrom # find the device for mointpoint /cdrom MOUNTPOINT="$(grep -i /cdrom\ /etc/mtab|awk '{print $1}')" #this is the line we will remove REMLINE="$(grep -i $MOUNTPOINT $TMPDIR/fstab.1)" # copy all lines we want to keep grep -v $MOUNTPOINT $TMPDIR/fstab.1 >$TMPDIR/fstab.2 # tell wich line we removed echo "#Removed by /opt/fix-fstab" >>$TMPDIR/fstab.2 echo "#$REMLINE" >>$TMPDIR/fstab.2 cp -f $TMPDIR/fstab.2 $FSTAB |
dont forget to add it to filetool.lst
Posted by mikshaw on Jan. 11 2005,14:48
Good idea. I wonder about other disks, though, such as floppys and other removable media....wouldn't you get errors with these?How about a single line....
for i in /dev/hda{3,4} /dev/sda1; do mount $i; done
Of course, you'd have to edit it to use your own devices.
Posted by henk1955 on Jan. 11 2005,15:02
the script skips the cdrom and floppy.the script is generic and can be used withouth change on computers with other disk configuraties
Posted by mikshaw on Jan. 11 2005,19:10
oh....I guess I'm just not seeing it. I only see reference to 'cdrom'. Anyway, the worst that could happen is a warning message
