Bash: Automatically Mount File Systems on Volume Group if Present

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Update 09/16/2015 – I have published an updated article for this here: http://blog.allanglesit.com/2012/08/bash-automatically-mount-file-systems-on-volume-group-if-present/

In my laptop I have a solid state disk, and frankly I am way past addicted to solid state disks, but what you get in performance you lose in capacity. As such I have had to be creative with how I can have the capacity and the performance that I need. Lately the solution has been to have a spinning disk in the slot that would normally be occupied by my CD/DVD drive. However the problem with this, revealed itself to be that my Fedora install would actually fail to boot when it tried and failed to mount the file systems if this device was not present. So my first “solution” was to set noauto in the /etc/fstab for these secondary file systems. Which presented a new problem… I would forget to manually mount these devices before launching Virtualbox to start my VMs. So I decided that I would need to have an auto-mount script which would check for the volume group to be present and then if it was mount the file systems contained within the /etc/fstab which live on the volume group.

Removable Disk on the bin

Bash: Automatically Mount File Systems on Volume Group if Present