[SGVLUG] External Drive on RHEL 4

[Rae Yip]

Generally automounter takes care of removeable media (USB or
otherwise). So long as you don't force a mount in your /etc/fstab, it
should be fine to boot without the drive attached or on.

Samba might need a little scripting to re-probe and refresh its
available volumes when you plug in the drive, though. I'm not as
familiar with mucking that aspect.

-Rae.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:04 PM, DYN: Jim Workman<JimW at dynashoe.com> wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance,
>
> I'm looking into adding a USB hard-drive dock (replaceable SATA hard
> drives) for archiving old data.  Has anyone tried this?
>
> Would there be problems mounting if there is no drive in the dock when
> the system boots?
>
> Wouldn't files be readable from any *nix and even Windows (ala Samba)?
>
> Jim Workman
>
>