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#1 2011-01-30 21:16:38

krackpot
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Registered: 2009-01-24
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Alt-F 0.1B6 USB mounting

I decided to try out the Alt-F package after getting new drives and finally updating to 1.09fw.

One issue I'm having is how to get the USB to automatically mount to /mnt/sdc . Currently if I reboot, it takes over /mnt/sdb and that pushes the 2nd HD to /sdc which messes with the samba sharing in Windows.

Any ideas?


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#2 2011-01-31 01:29:22

jcard
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Registered: 2008-09-21
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Re: Alt-F 0.1B6 USB mounting

krackpot wrote:

I decided to try out the Alt-F package after getting new drives and finally updating to 1.09fw.

One issue I'm having is how to get the USB to automatically mount to /mnt/sdc . Currently if I reboot, it takes over /mnt/sdb and that pushes the 2nd HD to /sdc which messes with the samba sharing in Windows.

Any ideas?

Is the kernel and not Alt-F who decides the device name of each disk.
If your left disk is slower to spin-up than the usb disk, then the usb disk will appear before and will be assigned sdb.

You can check which appear first by examining the kernel (or system) log, System->utilities, I believe.

Last edited by jcard (2011-01-31 01:30:01)


Please consider discussing Alt-F at http://groups.google.com/group/alt-f/topics
Please consider filling Alt-F bugs at http://code.google.com/p/alt-f/issues/list

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#3 2011-01-31 03:29:28

krackpot
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Re: Alt-F 0.1B6 USB mounting

Thanks for you post, after a couple reboots, it seems to have sorted itself. Hopefully it stays that way. I did go from vfat to ext2 then ext3 before it loaded as sdc.


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#4 2011-01-31 21:18:49

jcard
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From: Portugal
Registered: 2008-09-21
Posts: 289

Re: Alt-F 0.1B6 USB mounting

jcard wrote:

krackpot wrote:

I decided to try out the Alt-F package after getting new drives and finally updating to 1.09fw.

One issue I'm having is how to get the USB to automatically mount to /mnt/sdc . Currently if I reboot, it takes over /mnt/sdb and that pushes the 2nd HD to /sdc which messes with the samba sharing in Windows.

Any ideas?

Is the kernel and not Alt-F who decides the device name of each disk.
If your left disk is slower to spin-up than the usb disk, then the usb disk will appear before and will be assigned sdb.

You can check which appear first by examining the kernel (or system) log, System->utilities, I believe.

You can also mount filesystems by label, this way they will always mount in the same "place", /mnt/<label>, whenever their device name is.

You can set fs labels in Disk->Filesystems, fill-in a label such as Video, then "Set Label" in the "FS Operations".


Please consider discussing Alt-F at http://groups.google.com/group/alt-f/topics
Please consider filling Alt-F bugs at http://code.google.com/p/alt-f/issues/list

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