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How to mount my 2nd drive at startup?
Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 4:06 am
by armchair_rambo
I'm pretty sure fstab needs to be edited, can someone please tell me how to mount my 2nd hard drive at startup?
I download using sda but move torrents to sdb when they are done. Need sdb to attach to /media/STORAGE/
I'm not totally a newbie, but not far from one. Mostly used Fedora before now. I'm sorry if this is in some FAQ but I don't know what it is I don't know.
Thanks so much for any assistance you can offer!
Re: How to mount my 2nd drive at startup?
Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 2:53 pm
by finotti
Well, it depends... Can you show us your current /etc/fstab?
I prefer to use UUID to identify the disk. You can find it with:
See what is pointing to sdb. Then,
remove (or edit) the previous sdb line and add something like:
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UUID=<UUID you found here> /media/STORAGE ext4 auto,users,rw,exec,noatime 0 2
(Assuming that sdb is formatted as ext4.)
Be careful: if you are using systemd, it seems that errors in fstab makes the system unbootable in regular mode. (I think you have to start on safe-mode to fix it.)
Re: How to mount my 2nd drive at startup?
Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 4:46 pm
by armchair_rambo
Thanks for the response. This is what I have in fstab now::
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=499efdba-1d68-4009-983d-4bcc21268eaa / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=cbba5c5c-818b-4487-a001-5be3527c7e0f none swap sw 0 0
After mounting sdb manually, here's the output from blkid:
/dev/sda1: UUID="499efdba-1d68-4009-983d-4bcc21268eaa" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="cbba5c5c-818b-4487-a001-5be3527c7e0f" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="499efdba-1d68-4009-983d-4bcc21268eaa" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb2: LABEL="STORAGE" UUID="42d4b973-b6d6-4537-a512-16ffccec877b" TYPE="ext4"
I'm trying to attach sdb2 to sda5 at /media/STORAGE/
Thanks!
Re: How to mount my 2nd drive at startup?
Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 5:10 pm
by finotti
armchair_rambo wrote:Thanks for the response. This is what I have in fstab now::
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=499efdba-1d68-4009-983d-4bcc21268eaa / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=cbba5c5c-818b-4487-a001-5be3527c7e0f none swap sw 0 0
After mounting sdb manually, here's the output from blkid:
/dev/sda1: UUID="499efdba-1d68-4009-983d-4bcc21268eaa" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="cbba5c5c-818b-4487-a001-5be3527c7e0f" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="499efdba-1d68-4009-983d-4bcc21268eaa" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb2: LABEL="STORAGE" UUID="42d4b973-b6d6-4537-a512-16ffccec877b" TYPE="ext4"
So, I
think (don't hold me responsible if something goes wrong!) your /etc/fstab should look something like this:
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# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=499efdba-1d68-4009-983d-4bcc21268eaa / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=cbba5c5c-818b-4487-a001-5be3527c7e0f none swap sw 0 0
UUID=42d4b973-b6d6-4537-a512-16ffccec877b /media/STORAGE ext4 auto,users,rw,exec,noatime 0 2
armchair_rambo wrote:
I'm trying to attach sdb2 to sda5 at /media/STORAGE/
I don't understand this sentence... (sda5 is swap... what do you mean to attach?) Anyway, the above
should automatically mount sdb2 to /media/STORAGE.
Re: How to mount my 2nd drive at startup?
Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 5:14 pm
by armchair_rambo
Ha yes I got it wrong, not gonna be using a swap drive for storage.
I appreciate the advice, I know enough to be dangerous but know
enough to make a backup of fstab first. Thanks for the info,
caveat emptor! I'll give it a try and report back.
Re: How to mount my 2nd drive at startup?
Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 5:35 pm
by armchair_rambo
It worked perfectly, thanks a lot! I used your code without changing anything in it.
Can't tell you how annoying it was to manually mount the drive at every boot!
Cheers, friend.