[SGVLUG] PogoPlug mount problem

[Matthew Campbell]

Thank you John for your thoughtful answer.

Unfortunately these are USB devices so I can't assume that they will be
mounted as the same device from boot to boot which is why I started down
the UUID route.

# cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

  31        0       2048 mtdblock0
  31        1       3072 mtdblock1
  31        2       3072 mtdblock2
  31        3       8192 mtdblock3
  31        4     114688 mtdblock4
   8        0 2930266584 sda
   8        1 2930265088 sda1
   8       32 2930266584 sdc
   8       33 2930265088 sdc1
   8       48    3913696 sdd
   8       49    3911680 sdd1
   8       16 1953514582 sdb
   8       17 1953512534 sdb1

So it looks like they are showing up.  I can mount them once the boot
sequence is complete by hand:

# blkid
/dev/sdc1: UUID="408d60e4-358b-450f-a6f0-4c3fdde4e8ed" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda1: UUID="062801fe-7225-4834-b27d-104e375c1bbc" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="2858227358223FC4" LABEL="TOSHIBA EXT" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdd1: UUID="0d295fe2-b6b9-4d8e-b035-d68ec6c0843e" TYPE="ext3"
/tmp/.cemnt/sdb1: UUID="2858227358223FC4" LABEL="TOSHIBA EXT" TYPE="ntfs"

The question is:  On a Pogoplug Mobile device (arm/busybox) where in the
boot sequence should I be attempting to mount the partitions?

I am not a busybox expert.  Others had success adding the lines to
/etc/init.d/rcS but this does not appear to be working in my case.  Any
other suggestions of where to look?

# uname -a
Linux PogoplugMobile 2.6.31.8 #4 Tue Aug 23 13:00:50 PDT 2011 armv5tel
GNU/Linux

# busybox | head -n1
BusyBox v1.16.1 (2011-08-23 13:02:26 PDT) multi-call binary.

Look on the bottom of the unit:  Model POGO-V4-A1-01

Matt


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On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:11 AM, John Kreznar <jek at ininx.com> wrote:

> In a posting purporting to be from Matthew Campbell <dvdmatt at gmail.com>
> but lacking a digital signature, it is written:
>
> > I am running into some problems trying to get my USB drives to mount
> > automatically in a known location when my PogoPlug Mobile v4 boots. ...
>
> > It seems that busybox doesn't understand mounting by UUID
>
> Would it be practical to mount by device name (e.g. /dev/sde1) instead
> of UUID?
>
> Do those devices appear in /proc/partitions at that stage of the boot?
> The mount man page says
>
> BUGS
>        ...
>
>        Mount by label or uuid will work only if your devices have the
>        names listed in /proc/partitions.  In particular, it may well
>        fail if the kernel was compiled with devfs but devfs is not
>        mounted.
>
> --
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>  John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13
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