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B-80

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Registered: 2010-05-05

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[Solved] External Hard Drive mount point in fstab crashes launch

Hi there,

I have an external hard drive that I'd like to automount when I plug it in. Sometimes it seems to work, but other times I have to manually mount it. In order to make this a little easier, I copied the mounting info into my fstab file so that I could just run:

mount /dir/to/mount

However, now I can't actually boot up my machine unless the external drive is plugged in. I get some error from systemctrl saying one of the drives couldn't be loaded. 

An obvious work around would be to write a one line script that mounts the drive for me, however, I'd like to learn how to do this correctly. I think the rules have changed a bit with systemd, as I didn't have this problem a few years ago. 

Thanks for the help!

Last edited by B-80 (2015-05-17 08:14:08)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [Solved] External Hard Drive mount point in fstab crashes launch

Add "nofail" to the options section.

EDIT: ...in /etc/fstab

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2015-05-16 22:48:29)

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Re: [Solved] External Hard Drive mount point in fstab crashes launch

devmon/udiskie/similar

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B-80

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Registered: 2010-05-05

Posts: 47

Re: [Solved] External Hard Drive mount point in fstab crashes launch

Add "nofail" to the options section.

EDIT: ...in /etc/fstab

Thanks for the answer, that fixed it.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [Solved] External Hard Drive mount point in fstab crashes launch

Add "nofail" to the options section.

EDIT: ...in /etc/fstab

Thanks for the answer, that fixed it.

You're welcome but I think Mr.Elendig's post gives the actual solution (my proposal is just a workaround -- using fstab for a filesystem that is not permanently attached is sub-optimal)

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