Not sure if this is helpful or not, but in Ubuntu I always install pmount from synaptic which makes mounting usb drives a snap!
Not sure if this is helpful or not, but in Ubuntu I always install pmount from synaptic which makes mounting usb drives a snap!
Herewith a slight modification of fstab, with auto on one usb drive and not on the other:
# External ext3 250 GB USB drive mounted as ext3backup
UUID=0e6fb1ec-8847-4214-8834-1de48a9fb37a /media/ext3backup ext3 user,auto 0 0
# External ext3 120 GB USB drive mounted as ext3backup2
UUID=485f3260-d7be-4765-ae0d-43c5d9226546 /media/ext3backup2 ext3 user 0 0
However, as I expected (as auto is the default) neither mounts at boot. Using sudo mount -a after boot does, however, mount them both.
Thus, it is still a mystery....
Aridus
i was just curiuos what is this uuid thing ?
Guaranteed solution
sudo sh -c "echo usb_storage >> /etc/modules"
or add usb_storage manually to /etc/modules
Reboot and all will be fine.
Thanks to this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1128849
Many thanks, but if only! I read the thread, and it makes sense that this could be the problem. However, usb_storage is now in /etc/modules, but after a reboot sudo mount -a is still required to mount the drives.
Aridus
A Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) is an identifier standard used in software construction, standardized by the Open Software Foundation (OSF) a... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUID), which I found by reading https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab, which is useful but doesn't help mount my usb drives automatically....
Aridus
thnx dude .. i think that can fix my problem with permissions in mounted ntfs volume
Excellent.. but does anybody yet have a solution to ensure that usb drives in /etc/fstab mount? Thanks!
Aridus
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