Mount drive at boot up problem.

[kdeuser]

@ VINNY,

Doesn`t work , again the line gets thrown out at boot.

UUID=41c3909e-78ab-4bf7-b2dc-5d541a6aa8b9 /media/hd3 jfs defaults 0 0

UUID=41c3909e-78ab-4bf7-b2dc-5d541a6aa8b9 /media/hd3 jfs defaults,nofail 0 0

UUID=eb459c80-7168-4749-aab3-36ae9d4eb6e8 /media/hd auto defaults,nofail 0 2

Which of the commands in bold do i use ? Are those spaces significant ?

[vinnywright]

do

kdesudo kate /etc/fstab

or if in unity or Gnome

gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

(or gksu depending on how the sys is set up)and add to the bottom of the file

/dev/sdc1     /media/hd3       jfs              defaults        0   0

or for UUID use 41c3909e-78ab-4bf7-b2dc-5d541a6aa8b9 in place of , "/dev/sdc1"


VINNY

[kdeuser]

Hi VINNY ,

Yes , i do know that the drive mounts in ro , want it in rw. The mkdir command should only be required once but nooooo......... nothing is ever straight forward is it ? or is it ?

Ok, output of `sudo parted - l`

reel@BM2LTSR66RBin:/media/hd/home/reel$ sudo parted -l
[sudo] password for reel: 
Model: ATA TOSHIBA MQ01ABD0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system     Flags
 1      32.3kB  14.0GB  14.0GB  primary  ext4            boot
 2      14.0GB  14.0GB  8225kB  primary  ext3
 3      14.0GB  15.5GB  1497MB  primary  linux-swap(v1)
 4      15.5GB  500GB   485GB   primary  ext4


Model: ATA WDC WD20EARS-00M (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                Flags
 1      17.4kB  2000GB  2000GB  jfs          Linux/Windows data  msftdata


Model: ATA WDC WD30EZRS-00J (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 3001GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                Flags
 1      17.4kB  3001GB  3001GB  jfs          Linux/Windows data  msftdata


Model: ATA ST32000542AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdd: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                Flags
 1      17.4kB  2000GB  2000GB  jfs          Linux/Windows data  msftdata
reel@BM2LTSR66RBin:/media/hd/home/reel$

Output of blkid :

reel@BM2LTSR66RBin:/media/hd/home/reel$ sudo blkid
[sudo] password for reel: 
/dev/sda1: UUID="dbfcd848-5a9e-43dd-bbf7-179679e21be7" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda2: UUID="ffe33e8a-9853-4af2-b73e-392912da6bcb" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/sda3: UUID="ad73c128-bd08-4cd6-ab6c-a4524165c271" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/sda4: LABEL="Reel Media Drive" UUID="eb459c80-7168-4749-aab3-36ae9d4eb6e8" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="Reel Media Drive" UUID="c36f1885-62ea-4fcc-9570-1cf15d96bc3a" TYPE="jfs" 
/dev/sdd1: LABEL="Reel Media Drive" UUID="77dcd436-432a-43d1-8a74-789bb27a672e" TYPE="jfs" 
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="Reel Media Drive" UUID="41c3909e-78ab-4bf7-b2dc-5d541a6aa8b9" TYPE="jfs" 
reel@BM2LTSR66RBin:/media/hd/home/reel$

[vinnywright]

Hi ,

Just a small problem on a drive that always mounted at boot up and now have to manually mount from terminal.

Have tried to write the drive`s UUID into /etc/fstab/ but gets thrown out.

The commands used to mount the drive are :

This creates the mount point -

[B]sudo mkdir /media/hd3[/B]

this only has to be run one time , the command "mkdir" creates a directory at the specified location with the specified name and remains until removed by you .

This mounts the drive :

[B]sudo mount -vs -t jfs -o ro,nointegrity,errors=remount-ro /dev/sdc1 /media/hd3
[/B]

you are shure you are using the JFS file system for this drive ? ,,,,,, and you do realize you are mounting it "read only" > ro<

Every time have to enter these commands into terminal.

Print of df -h :

reel@BM2LTSR66RBin:/media/hd/home/reel$ df -h 
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1        13G  8.4G  3.7G  70% /
none            4.0K     0  4.0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev            2.0G   12K  2.0G   1% /dev
tmpfs           406M  1.4M  404M   1% /run
none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none            2.0G  148K  2.0G   1% /run/shm
none            100M   28K  100M   1% /run/user
/dev/sda4       445G  4.8G  417G   2% /media/hd
/dev/sdd1       1.9T  1.8T   49G  98% /media/hd1
/dev/sdb1       1.9T  1.3T  557G  71% /media/hd2
tmpfs            10M     0   10M   0% /media
/dev/sdc1       2.8T  2.4T  385G  87% /media/hd3

yup it mounted ................

Print of cat/etc/fstab/ :

reel@BM2LTSR66RBin:/media/hd/home/reel$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0

# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
/dev/sda1     /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1

# swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation
/dev/sda3     none            swap    sw              0       0
UUID=eb459c80-7168-4749-aab3-36ae9d4eb6e8    /media/hd    auto    defaults,nofail    0    2
UUID=77dcd436-432a-43d1-8a74-789bb27a672e    /media/hd1    auto    defaults,nofail    0    2
UUID=c36f1885-62ea-4fcc-9570-1cf15d96bc3a    /media/hd2    auto    defaults,nofail    0    2
reel@BM2LTSR66RBin:/media/hd/home/reel$

Here, fstb is showing 3 drives, i just manually mounted the offending drive and it`s not in there ?

Thanks for all your help on this.

you manualy mounting the drive will not automatically add it to /etc/fstab ,,,,,,,, you must add it your self .

post the output of

sudo parted -l

and we will give you the correct line to add ...........if you want to use UUID's allso post the output of

sudo blkid

VINNY

[kdeuser]

Hi ,

Just a small problem on a drive that always mounted at boot up and now have to manually mount from terminal.

Have tried to write the drive`s UUID into /etc/fstab/ but gets thrown out.

The commands used to mount the drive are :

This creates the mount point -

[B]sudo mkdir /media/hd3[/B]

This mounts the drive :

[B]sudo mount -vs -t jfs -o ro,nointegrity,errors=remount-ro /dev/sdc1 /media/hd3
[/B]

Every time have to enter these commands into terminal.

Print of df -h :

reel@BM2LTSR66RBin:/media/hd/home/reel$ df -h 
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1        13G  8.4G  3.7G  70% /
none            4.0K     0  4.0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev            2.0G   12K  2.0G   1% /dev
tmpfs           406M  1.4M  404M   1% /run
none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none            2.0G  148K  2.0G   1% /run/shm
none            100M   28K  100M   1% /run/user
/dev/sda4       445G  4.8G  417G   2% /media/hd
/dev/sdd1       1.9T  1.8T   49G  98% /media/hd1
/dev/sdb1       1.9T  1.3T  557G  71% /media/hd2
tmpfs            10M     0   10M   0% /media
/dev/sdc1       2.8T  2.4T  385G  87% /media/hd3

Print of cat/etc/fstab/ :

reel@BM2LTSR66RBin:/media/hd/home/reel$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0

# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
/dev/sda1 	/               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1

# swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation
/dev/sda3	 none            swap    sw              0       0
UUID=eb459c80-7168-4749-aab3-36ae9d4eb6e8	/media/hd	auto	defaults,nofail	0	2
UUID=77dcd436-432a-43d1-8a74-789bb27a672e	/media/hd1	auto	defaults,nofail	0	2
UUID=c36f1885-62ea-4fcc-9570-1cf15d96bc3a	/media/hd2	auto	defaults,nofail	0	2
reel@BM2LTSR66RBin:/media/hd/home/reel$

Here, fstb is showing 3 drives, i just manually mounted the offending drive and it`s not in there ?

Thanks for all your help on this.