Hello,

I've got a Fedora 3 machine with an external firewire hard drive. The drive is being used for backups. Every morning I find that the system thinks the drive is still mounted, but if I ls the mount point, it appears to be empty. Rebooting the system resolves the issue, the contents of the drive are once again visible in the mount point.

I'd like my backup to require less intervention on my part, and rebooting this linux machine every day is getting old. Has anyone else run into this before?

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

TIA,
Troy

Anything in the dmesg output? Anything running on cron overnight? (ie have you tried killing the cron daemon for a night)?

TIM

Excellent, it must be a cron job. :-)

Thank you for the suggestion, I'll troubleshoot it from here and report back when I find the culprit.



Cheers,
Troy

Unfortunately, it's not a cron job. At first there seemed to be a relationship, but I got mixed results after a few days, and have been experimenting since without any new leads materializing.

Has anyone else run into this issue?

Cheers,
Troy

Unfortunately, this is still a problem, seven months since my original post. Has anyone else run into this disappearing firewire drive issue?

Did you check this link ?

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=341110