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lux@sol.UVic.CA (Michael O'Henly) writes:

>	Let's say I power up the system. It goes through its usual
>startup procedure. Among other things, it looks for disks and (in the
>verbose startup display) prints some info about all three drives. Then
>it halts at the login screen. Fine.

>	So I log in. When the browser window opens, there's a brief
>pause while the system spins up the two external drives -- then icons
>for the external drives appear on the shelf. At this point (I figure),
>the external drives are mounted. Fine again.
Not really.  They're getting mounted to /volumelabel by
autodiskmount.  This only happens when someone logs in on the
console, as you have found.

>	But when I telnet to the machine and log in under the same
>account, the external drives are _not_ mounted. No matter what I do
>(not much, considering my limited knowledge of Unix), I can't "see"
>those drives.
You need to add entries to /etc/fstab for these drives. (not netinfo
fstab, but the actual flat file, because this is read before netinfo
is even run in the /etc/rc file)

Your externals are probably /dev/sd1a and /dev/sd2a.  So you would
append to your /etc/fstab:

/dev/sd1a /external1 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
/dev/sd2a /external2 4.3 rw,noquota 0 3

Of course, you can change /external1 to whatever you want it mounted
on each time you reboot.
If you're logged into the console, you'll have to reboot for these
changes to take effect.  If you're on remote, you can do mount -av
probably. (as root)
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