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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I want to mount an external USB device at boot time. It worked fine in earlier versions of Debian.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have a machine set up with Debian Squeeze. I have fstab set up to mount an external USB drive using the UUID of the disk. It works fine once the machine is running I mount the mount point or type mount –a. The disk does not mount during system boot up. I can’t find any errors in the log that indicate why.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What I have been able to find so far seems to indicate udev is trying to help me with my removable disk. It seems they want to keep USB drives in userland. I see a lot of references to udev rules but I haven’t found anything yet that plainly tells me how to set up the rules, or disable udev enough to make the classic fstab settings work.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Has anyone else run into this? Anyone have any pointers? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-Nate<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>