[SOLVED] Mounting External Hard drive?

JosephS · 10-05-2015, 02:04 PM

I'm trying to set up a auto backup, so want to figure out how to mount an external hard drive in a script.
According to blkid this is the UUID that is for the external drive:

Code:

joe@crunchbang:~$ blkid
/dev/sdf1: LABEL="root_backup" UUID="0fda3ef4-5a62-43e8-b4e6-6eb655a9c6af" TYPE="ext4"

I put this entry in /etc/fstab:

Quote:

# External hard drive
0fda3ef4-5a62-43e8-b4e6-6eb655a9c6af /media/root_backup ext4 defaults,noauto 0 2

When I try to mount the device with UUID I get an error:

Code:

sudo mount -U 0fda3ef4-5a62-43e8-b4e6-6eb655a9c6af
mount: no such partition found

Also with trying to mount with the diredtory:

Quote:

joe@crunchbang:~$ sudo mount /media/root_backup/
mount: special device 0fda3ef4-5a62-43e8-b4e6-6eb655a9c6af does not exist

I could put an entry in the script like:

Quote:

joe@crunchbang:~$ sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sdf1 /media/root_backup/

but the device is not always the same.

Any suggestions of how to resolve this?

Thanks

michaelk · 10-05-2015, 04:26 PM

The correct fstab syntax for using UUID is:

UUID=0fda3ef4-5a62-43e8-b4e6-6eb655a9c6af /media/root_backup/ ext4 defaults,noauto 0 2

Since the filesystem also has a label defined you can also use:

LABEL=root_backup /media/root_backup/ ext4 defaults,noauto 0 2

JosephS · 10-06-2015, 01:24 AM

Thanks
I realize my mistake