Hi,

I have a usb drive that I would like to use for automatic backup and I'd like for it to be mounted at boot time and treated the same as any other disk.

I found these instructions which describe exactly what I want to do...

http://linux.wordpress.com/2006/10/07/suse-automatically-mount-usb-hard-drives/

However I'm running Ubuntu feisty and those instructions don't work properly for this distro. During boot the fsck stage fails because the disk isn't mounted yet (Well I think that's what's happening).

After boot up manually running 'mount -a' mounts the drive as expected.

Anyone know how to get this working? Or is there an alternative approach?

I figure I could just run mount -a in rc.local but then how would the fsck get to run every nth mount?

Glenn