mount usb hard drive for backups

[tomdchi]

I am running centos 5.2 and I have so far been unable to figure out what to do to have a usb hard drive auto mounted at boot.  If I am logged into xserver as root then it will mount under /media but only if logged in.  I am using this for normal backups and cpanel backups.  I have searched on the net and found very few instructions that deal with this specific setup and have tried them all but nothing has worked.  Can someone please help?

[steviewdr]

Try the following:

 

df -h  (shows current mounted disks etc.)

In the above, check to see if your usb key is showing. Check based on size of space on device.

 

If the usb is not mounted automatically, you need to do:

mkdir /mnt

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt  (see if that works)

ls /mnt

 

mount /dev/sda2 /mnt (see if that works)

ls /mnt

 

mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt (see if that works)

Keep trying from sda to sdd etc.

 

-steve

[Ghulam Yaseen]

Hello ,

 

First, install autofs on workstation(s).

yum install autofs

 

vi /etc/autofs/auto.master

add

/mnt/auto      /etc/autofs/auto.auto    --timeout=5

 

now vi /etc/autofs/auto.auto

usb                          -fstype=auto                                  :/dev/sda1

add

auto    -fstype=auto    :/dev/sda1

 

restart the autofs

/etc/init.d/autofs restart

 

Try the following:

 

df -h  (shows current mounted disks etc.)

In the above, check to see if your usb key is showing. Check based on size of space on device.

 

If the usb is not mounted automatically, you need to do:

mkdir /mnt

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt  (see if that works)

ls /mnt

 

mount /dev/sda2 /mnt (see if that works)

ls /mnt

 

mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt (see if that works)

Keep trying from sda to sdd etc.

 

-steve