NSA325 fstab

Trying to mount specific disks to specific directorys at boot gives me some problems. If the disk isnt connected i cant access the box as ssh gets connection refused. Must the disk be present when using UUID or LABEL?

My fstab:

root@kerstin:~# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
LABEL=rootfs    /               ext3    noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
tmpfs          /tmp            tmpfs   defaults          0       0

UUID="ebb4303f-89a8-4314-8d50-f506ff894eea"    /mnt/hitachi               ext3   defaults 0 0

Also, do I dare lower rootdelay and bootdelay? Feels like my box takes forever to boot.

set_bootargs=setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 $mtdparts init=/bin/systemd
start_netconsole=setenv ncip $serverip; setenv bootdelay 10; setenv stdin nc; setenv stdout nc; setenv stderr nc; version;

fgh,

> Trying to mount specific disks to specific
> directorys at boot gives me some problems. If the
> disk isnt connected i cant access the box as ssh
> gets connection refused. Must the disk be present
> when using UUID or LABEL?

Use nofail option so the system will continue booting if the disk is not plugged in.

UUID="ebb4303f-89a8-4314-8d50-f506ff894eea"    /mnt/hitachi               ext3   nofail 0 0

And BTW, label is a more flexible way to mount a disk drive in Debian.

> Also, do I dare lower rootdelay and bootdelay?
> Feels like my box takes forever to boot.

Yes, you can adjust these parameters to something like 3 seconds. But it depends on where your box and the netconsole server located! if you want to have enough time to walk back to the netconsole server to interrupt u-boot when needed, then adjust the bootdelay according to that distance. If you always use a laptop to run netconsole server, then I'd say 3 seconds is good.

Also, the NSA325 u-boot-2017.07-tld-1 (I assume you have this installed) has the envs devices and disks that determine what types of disk drive and how many partitions to scan. These are also adjustable to your specific configuration to make the boot faster and the log less noisy.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/30/2021 05:46PM by bodhi.

Correction

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Yes, you can adjust these parameters to something like 3 seconds.

should be

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Yes, you can adjust bootdelay to something like 3 seconds.

Not rootdelay. 3 seconds is too short an interval to wait for the rootfs drive to spin up (in some system, rootwait is used to wait forever).

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