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dapayne12

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Registered: 2007-08-05

Posts: 3

USB drive fails e2fsck on startup

Hi,

I hope I posted this in the right forum, it's hardware related (not really kernel related).

I have an external USB hard drive /dev/sdb with thiree ext3 partitions /dev/sdb1-3.  If I add it to /etc/fstab with default options on boot it complains that
e2fsck fails and I have to type my root password to "fix" it.  I comment it out of /etc/fstab and boot as normal.  After I boot I run e2fsck on the partitions it comes up clean.  A also mount them using the mount command and it has no problems with that either.  I can read/write to all my files.  I don't think it can see the drive at the point in time where it trys to check the disks on startup.  What can I do to get it to mount on startup?

Thanks,

David Payne

dapayne12

Member

Registered: 2007-08-05

Posts: 3

Re: USB drive fails e2fsck on startup

Hi,

I was asking in IRC and someone suggesting this wiki page.  At first it seemed like it didn't address what what was happening with me but I followed it anyway and it now works.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Usi … o_a_device

Thanks,

David Payne