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Keith W
March 31st, 2014, 01:56 PM
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and want a hard drive to mount automatically at start up. I have found lots of advice on line but whatever I do I always get this message during boot up:
"The disk drive for </media/BackupDrive> is not ready yet or not present." I have tried waiting but nothing happens so I have to skip the mounting.

I have attempted creating a folder called BackupDrive in /media but still get the same message (and when mounted manually the drive appears in another folder called BackupDrive_ - note the underscore).

This is the drive identity from blkid:
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="BackupDrive" UUID="4A54C43254C42295" TYPE="ntfs"

and this is the entry currently in fstab:
UUID=<4A54C43254C42295> </media/BackupDrive> <ntfs> uid=<1000>,gid=<1000>,umask=0022,async,auto,rw 0 0
The drive is (like the other drive in the machine) an IDE drive.

I should add that I am far from au fait with Linux so am probably missing something blatantly obvious.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

sandyd
March 31st, 2014, 02:18 PM
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and want a hard drive to mount automatically at start up. I have found lots of advice on line but whatever I do I always get this message during boot up:
"The disk drive for </media/BackupDrive> is not ready yet or not present." I have tried waiting but nothing happens so I have to skip the mounting.

I have attempted creating a folder called BackupDrive in /media but still get the same message (and when mounted manually the drive appears in another folder called BackupDrive_ - note the underscore).

This is the drive identity from blkid:
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="BackupDrive" UUID="4A54C43254C42295" TYPE="ntfs"

and this is the entry currently in fstab:
UUID=<4A54C43254C42295> </media/BackupDrive> <ntfs> uid=<1000>,gid=<1000>,umask=0022,async,auto,rw 0 0
The drive is (like the other drive in the machine) an IDE drive.

I should add that I am far from au fait with Linux so am probably missing something blatantly obvious.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Try removing the '<' and '>'


UUID=4A54C43254C42295 /media/BackupDrive ntfs-3g uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0022,async,auto,rw 0 0

Keith W
March 31st, 2014, 03:32 PM
Try removing the '<' and '>'


UUID=4A54C43254C42295 /media/BackupDrive ntfs-3g uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0022,async,auto,rw 0 0


You have cracked it for me. Mounts perfectly now. My sincere thanks.