new storage harddrive has be mounted every boot ...<SOLVED>

binskipy2u · 2010-07-16 13:40:31

I put a new hard drive in as a slave for data.. used gparted to format it and label it.. but everytime i reboot.. the links to the various folders are empty.. as if its not there.. i have to back to gparted, unmount it, then close gparted and its there and i have to re find the links for wallpapers, and my music to play music or to have switching wallpapers..
any ideas??? I thought once you named it, formated it, via gparted, it was just "there" every reboot?
am i missing something..

I just checked fstab, and it's not there.. just alot of UUID numbers.. how do i add a hard drive??? iread the posts.. and i have no clue what is meant or how to do it???

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UUID=64cb2ee2-8132-4632-b1fd-661af630d315 / ext4 defaults 0 1
UUID=8bef63b2-e0d2-42a5-b747-7ff8710883a8 /home ext4 defaults 0 1
UUID=8ff88b2a-bc7b-42a8-8682-38d7f0c825f9 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=fd64e00d-457d-4c99-8ba7-c790402d66fd /boot ext2 defaults 0 1

I did the above by opening Kate and looking at fstab as a normal user..

the harddrive is working.. i'm playing music from it now.. so i did this command and got the following

-l /dev/disk/by-uuid
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 16 06:59 579a08ea-3bb0-450c-a88e-cf248488c29e -> ../../sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 16 06:59 64cb2ee2-8132-4632-b1fd-661af630d315 -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 16 06:59 8bef63b2-e0d2-42a5-b747-7ff8710883a8 -> ../../sda4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 16 06:59 8ff88b2a-bc7b-42a8-8682-38d7f0c825f9 -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 16 06:59 fd64e00d-457d-4c99-8ba7-c790402d66fd -> ../../sda1

now I have no idea what to do with this information above and how to add it to fstab ?

do i just add (the sdb1 entry like this) UUID=579a08ea-3bb0-450c-a88e-cf248488c29e / ext4 defaults 0 1
to fstab? if "yes" , then do i put it at the top where it is with that command output, or on the bottom?

its mounted in dolphin as /media/%mystuff so will it look like this instead?
UUID=579a08ea-3bb0-450c-a88e-cf248488c29e /media/%mystuff ext4 defaults 0 1
or
UUID=579a08ea-3bb0-450c-a88e-cf248488c29e /%mystuff ext4 defaults 0 1

i'm totally lost, and i dont want to have to thru mount -a or opening up gparted everything I want to use this data drive with pics, music, documents, etc on it

I just installed autofs (said it automounts even those drives that dont show up in fstab) this didnt work..
i had to open up dolphin and add entry and i hit cancel and everything then showed up?
do i have to go thru this every reboot?

I FIXED IT, by reading the wiki and googling.. added this entry to fstab
UUID=579a08ea-3bb0-450c-a88e-cf248488c29e /media/%mystuff ext4 defaults 0 1

rebooted, voila.. i was about to have a meltdown.. i guess reading is funda-mental !!!

thanks

Last edited by binskipy2u (2010-07-16 14:25:12)

sisco311 · 2010-07-16 14:27:02

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab

UUID=579a08ea-3bb0-450c-a88e-cf248488c29e    /media/mystuff    ext4    defaults    0    2

Just make sure that the mount point exist, as root:

mkdir -p /media/mystaff

binskipy2u · 2010-07-16 14:58:48

i put the % there /media/%mystuff ext4 defaults 0 1

should I have made that 1 a 2?? and why? just wondering?

but it seems to all work now.. at reboot..

I have NO idea how that % got in there.. but now I cant rename it to just /media/mystuff

even in root..

Last edited by binskipy2u (2010-07-16 15:00:02)

sisco311 · 2010-07-16 23:06:44

binskipy2u wrote:

should I have made that 1 a 2?? and why? just wondering?
but it seems to all work now.. at reboot..

2, you didn't read the wiki page I posted did you?

binskipy2u wrote:

i put the % there /media/%mystuff ext4 defaults 0 1
...
I have NO idea how that % got in there.. but now I cant rename it to just /media/mystuff
even in root..

why? what's your default shell? in bash:

mv /media/{%,}mystaff

EDIT: of course you have to unmount /media/%mystaff first.

Last edited by sisco311 (2010-07-16 23:17:16)

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#1 2010-07-16 13:40:31

new storage harddrive has be mounted every boot ...<SOLVED>

#2 2010-07-16 14:27:02

Re: new storage harddrive has be mounted every boot ...<SOLVED>

#3 2010-07-16 14:58:48

Re: new storage harddrive has be mounted every boot ...<SOLVED>

#4 2010-07-16 23:06:44

Re: new storage harddrive has be mounted every boot ...<SOLVED>

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