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erfanjoker

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[SOLVED] failure for automounting partition using fstab

Hi, here is :

^^>>> lsblk -f
├─sda1                                                                          
├─sda2 ext4     1.0         47478bcc-34d3-4a74-ac8f-eb915eab809d    124G    28% /
├─sda3 vfat     FAT32       641D-62D3                                           
├─sda4                                                                          
├─sda5 ntfs                 762221EC2221B253                                    
└─sda6 ntfs                 FE6CC2AC6CC25ED1                                    
sdc                                                                             
├─sdc1 ntfs           Files 4D44D0656C877DCD                                    
└─sdc2 swap     1           0a5105cd-79b0-4cc0-8fb3-ce8e555d766c                

I wanted to automount /dev/sdc1 with UUID of 4D44D0656C877DCD , so I followed fstab wiki page in arch wiki and added the line below to my fstab :

UUID=4D44D0656C877DCD         /run/media/erfan/Files            ntfs            noatime         0 0

I set the UUID, and the mountpoint i want to be mounted at, and the partition type, and also set noatime as explained in wiki, also set 0 0 to disable any check (I dont need any fscheck for this partition)

I smoothly rebooted and kaboom, system was not able to boot due to failure in mounting the new partition, and entered emergency mode (the mode that says press Ctrl + D , or enter), I was unable to boot into even cli mode, so i used live ubuntu usb i had and commented the line in my fstab

Now im able to boot but automount problem is still there

The question is, is anything wrong with the line i added ? I want that partition to be automounted at the point i specified, with no check and etc to be as fast as possible, cause its just a file partition nothing important

and FYI, i tried to provide you the error i was getting during the boot failure, but journal with -k just gives me information since my new boot which is useless for now, even --since  1 day ago is not effecting it

Also for more info :

^^>>> sudo blkid /dev/sdc1                                                                                                                                     22:40:36 
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="Files" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="4D44D0656C877DCD" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="384278c3-01"

And i was wondering if there is a less strict way to automount, other than fstab ? Suppose i take my laptop to other place and unplug the External HDD at /dev/sdc, then im gonna face boot error because HDD wont be present ! (also my swap is on /dev/sdc) , is there anyway to make mounting optional at this point ? to prevent boot failures

Last edited by erfanjoker (2020-12-25 23:36:15)

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] failure for automounting partition using fstab

Please post the journal for the boot with the failed mount.  See Fstab#External_devices to ignore mount failures.

erfanjoker

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Re: [SOLVED] failure for automounting partition using fstab

Please post the journal for the boot with the failed mount.  See Fstab#External_devices to ignore mount failures.

Hi, the problem is i cant access that, when i put -k, it just shows the log from current boot

Here is full log since yesterday which is a lot to read : https://mega.nz/file/SnoX2aIT#VjPoHySN8 … Sc8BXxUO1U
(Im informed that using mega.nz is bad idea since you have to download file , but log size is 13MB and no pastebin allows log in this size, I might need to run my own pastebin server ...)

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] failure for automounting partition using fstab

See the link I provided so the mount failing will not stop system booting.  Then post the journal for the boot with just that mount failing.

nd925a

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Re: [SOLVED] failure for automounting partition using fstab

Not sure if this helps or not:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udisks

Whenever I want to use an external USB drive I run udiskie from terminal. I vaguely remember there being a way to automate it, but I never bothered to figure it out.

erfanjoker

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Re: [SOLVED] failure for automounting partition using fstab

See the link I provided so the mount failing will not stop system booting.  Then post the journal for the boot with just that mount failing.

Thanks, I booted the system and here is complete journal : https://paste.centos.org/view/940ed0e7
But I cant see any trace of failure in this log, Not sure if 'no-fail' parameter let journal generate failure log, But im totally sure if i remove nofail option, I will not be able to boot again

erfanjoker

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Re: [SOLVED] failure for automounting partition using fstab

Not sure if this helps or not:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udisks

Whenever I want to use an external USB drive I run udiskie from terminal. I vaguely remember there being a way to automate it, but I never bothered to figure it out.

Thanks, I will try this method

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] failure for automounting partition using fstab

Dec 25 18:20:13 erfan ntfs-3g[553]: Mounted /dev/sdb1 (Read-Write, label "Files", NTFS 3.1)
Dec 25 18:20:13 erfan ntfs-3g[553]: Cmdline options: rw,noatime
Dec 25 18:20:13 erfan ntfs-3g[553]: Mount options: rw,allow_other,nonempty,noatime,fsname=/dev/sdb1,blkdev,blksize=4096
Dec 25 18:20:13 erfan ntfs-3g[553]: Ownership and permissions disabled, configuration type 7
Dec 25 18:20:13 erfan systemd[1]: Mounted /run/media/erfan/Files.

It worked?

erfanjoker

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Re: [SOLVED] failure for automounting partition using fstab

Dec 25 18:20:13 erfan ntfs-3g[553]: Mounted /dev/sdb1 (Read-Write, label "Files", NTFS 3.1)
Dec 25 18:20:13 erfan ntfs-3g[553]: Cmdline options: rw,noatime
Dec 25 18:20:13 erfan ntfs-3g[553]: Mount options: rw,allow_other,nonempty,noatime,fsname=/dev/sdb1,blkdev,blksize=4096
Dec 25 18:20:13 erfan ntfs-3g[553]: Ownership and permissions disabled, configuration type 7
Dec 25 18:20:13 erfan systemd[1]: Mounted /run/media/erfan/Files.

It worked?

I didnt tested it actually, but if log says, so it worked, now i tried to open the partition and it opened faster than non-mounted times, so it works
But the question is why ? What was wrong with it that adding nofail fixed it ?

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] failure for automounting partition using fstab

Did you also add the option rw?

erfanjoker

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Re: [SOLVED] failure for automounting partition using fstab

Did you also add the option rw?

UUID=47478bcc-34d3-4a74-ac8f-eb915eab809d       /               ext4            rw,relatime     0 1

UUID=0a5105cd-79b0-4cc0-8fb3-ce8e555d766c       none            swap            nofail,defaults 0 0

UUID=4D44D0656C877DCD         /run/media/erfan/Files            ntfs            nofail,noatime  0 0

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] failure for automounting partition using fstab

If you remove the nofail option and add rw does the mount fail?

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] failure for automounting partition using fstab

The ntfs driver is almost completely read only. You probably want ntfs-3g until the ntfs3 driver gets merged.