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0plovyk

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Registered: 2025-10-22

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Failing to automount External Drive causes a boot error

Hello, I`ll keep it straight, I had a problem with auto-mounting an external drive: I wanted to format my external drive from exfat to ext4, and also make the external drive auto-mount when the system boots up. I changed the mount point of the external drive to the /mnt directory and turned off the computer. However, when I later turned the computer back on, instead of logging into the system, I saw an error: "{FAILED} Failed to mount /mnt/<My ext drive folder name> ; {DEPEND} Dependency failed for mnt/<My ext drive folder name>/<My ext drive location>; {DEPEND} Dependency failed for Local File Systems ; You are in emergency mode". After it asks me to get into root mode and launch "journalctl" wich contained such errors as: "
32 arch mount[695): mount: /mnt/<My External Drive name>: qrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdal, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
arch mount[695):
dnesg(1) nay have nore infornation after failed nount systen call.
arch kernel: exFAT-fs (sdal): invalid fs_name
arch kernel: exFAT-fs (sdal): failed to read boot sector
arch kernel: exFAT-fs (sdal): failed to recognize exfat type
arch systemd[1]: mnt-<My External Drive>.mount: Mount process exited, code-exited, status-32/n/a

systemd[1]: local-fs.target: Job local-fs.targst/start failed with result 'dependency'
systemd[1]: local-fs.target: Triggering OnFaflure= dependencies.
sustemd[1]: mnt-<My External Drive Folder>-<My External Drive>.mount: Job mt-v_ ac-Sata.cownt/start falled with result 'dependency'
systemd[1]: systemd-ask-password-console.path: Deactivated successfully" Has anyone witnessed something like this?

Last edited by 0plovyk (2025-11-09 12:57:14)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Failing to automount External Drive causes a boot error

What, exactly, is in fstab? And how did you reformat it?

Last edited by Scimmia (2025-11-09 13:38:34)

0plovyk

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Registered: 2025-10-22

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Re: Failing to automount External Drive causes a boot error

Thanks you very much, I need to say that I have changed mounting points of my External Drive and now it somehow have 2 different filesystems united by dev/sdb1. First one is /dev/sda1 /mnt/WD_BLACK (Name of my external drive). It has exfat format and nofall, users and exec options. Second one is /dev/sdb1 located in mnt/WD_BLACK/Data (This was mounting point which I have changed from previous one "mnt/WD_BLACK"); It also have exfat format nd users, nosuid, nodev, x-gvfs-show and exec options. I`ve alrady tried formating Drive through mkfs.dev4 optionn but it did not work.

0plovyk

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Re: Failing to automount External Drive causes a boot error

Sorry I reported instead of replying.

Scimmia

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Re: Failing to automount External Drive causes a boot error

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855 When someone asks for information, NEVER paraphrase. Post full, exact information.

No, you do not have two filesystems on it. It sounds like you have two fstab entries? One is obviously wrong and needs removed.

0plovyk

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Registered: 2025-10-22

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Re: Failing to automount External Drive causes a boot error

Thanks, I am sorry!

0plovyk

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Registered: 2025-10-22

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Re: Failing to automount External Drive causes a boot error

Thanks, it helped! I am sorry I couldn`t reply because of DDOS attack