Auto mounting Hard drive

[jdtommy]

I add a peace of script to /etc/rcS.d/S00knoppix-autoconfig to search for a specific file on the rott of a partition. What is does is it mounts all possible partitions and then searches root for a file. When the file is found it will mount that partition as /mnt/hda1. It works, but there is 2 problems

1-after it goes through the process of searching the partitions it re-runs the auto config process again where it will re-search for devices and usb devices and configure them again.

2-I get an error every time it tries to mount a non existent partition. I have it forwarding the messages to /dev/null, and it does not get the messages when I test run just my code alone. But when it is run with the boot process it gets this message about 30 times:

modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-34

here is the code I added:

# Locate Config File CONFPART.F
findconf(){
   LOC=0
   # search all partitions for a file in the root directory
   for i in /mnt/tmp ; do
      # See if it's already mounted
      [ -f "$i/$1" ] &&  { echo "$i/$1"; return 0; }
      if [ -d "$i" ] && mount -r "$i" 2>/dev/null; then
         [ -f "$i/$1" ] && LOC=0
         umount -l "$i" 2>/dev/null
         [ -n "$LOC" ] && { echo "$LOC"; return 0; }
      fi
   done

}

searchdrv(){
   DRIVES="/dev/[h-s]d[a-z][0-9]"
   CONFDRV=""
   LOC=0

   for drv in $DRIVES ; do
      if (mount $drv /mnt/tmp 2>/dev/null) ; then
         LOC="$(findconf CONFPART.F)"
         if test "$LOC"; then
            CONFDRV=$drv
            return 0
         fi
         umount /mnt/tmp
      fi
   done
return 0
}
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mkdir /mnt/tmp
mkdir /mnt/hda1
searchdrv
echo Found CONFPART.F file in $CONFDRV
mount -rw $CONFDRV /mnt/hda1

let me know if anyone has an idea

[jdtommy]

I have been revising my code so that it is cleaner and runs smother buy I still have the same problems

here is the code:

# Locate ProQuest Config File CONFPART.F
findconf(){
   LOC=0
   # search all partitions for a file in the root directory
   for i in /mnt/tmp ; do
      # See if it's already mounted
      [ -f "$i/$1" ] &&  { echo "$i/$1"; return 0; }
   done
return 0
}


searchdrv(){
   DRIVES="/dev/[h,s]d[a-z][0-9]"
   CONFDRV=""
   LOC=""
   for drv in $DRIVES ; do
      if mount -rw $drv /mnt/tmp >/dev/null 2>&- ; then
         LOC="$(findconf CONFPART.F)"
         [ -n "$LOC" ] && { umount /mnt/tmp; echo $drv; return 0; }
         umount /mnt/tmp
      fi
   done
return 0
}

# locate ProQuest config partition and mount as hda1
mkdir /mnt/tmp 2>&-
mkdir /mnt/hda1 2>&-

# Search for config files
echo "0" > /proc/sys/kernel/printk
EXISTS="$(searchdrv)"
if test "$EXISTS"; then
   echo "${CRE}${BLUE}Found CONFPART.F in ${MAGENTA}$EXISTS"
   mount -rw "$EXISTS" /mnt/hda1 2>&-
else
   echo "${CRE}${RED}Local config files not loaded"
fi