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Hello all, I am having some trouble mounting 2 hard drives that i have attached to a WD TV. I have figured out how to manually mount them but i want them to mount at start up.
From what I gather this is done by editing the /etc/fstab. I have tried this and now have a problem at start up that asks if i want skip and resume start up.
Here is the fstab
Thanks in advance, and sorry if this question is beating a dead horse.
I forgot to mention that it said there is an error in line one. Not sure where though cause I didn't edit that as far I know.
Okay I've got it so the drives show up under devices but when I click on either one an error shows up saying only root can mount the drive
Last edited by sideburns05; 01-31-2013 at 11:09 PM.
You have probably accidentally edited this, but the UUID can't be correct, since it never contains spaces. To find out the correct UUID use the command
You can neglect the DUMPFLAG and DUMPORDER parts for network filesystems and just set them to 0.
I assume that your network shares are Samba or Windows shares, so the proper filesystem to use is cifs. Knowing this your entries in fstab should look like these:
Actually, last 2 are dump-freq & fsck-order, in that order (sic).
I never use those two, as I just never use dump. I got that info from the man-page of fstab and seem to have somehow mixed that up. Of course you are correct.
I had this problem after formatting C:\ With Windows XP to install Windows 7, I had the problem of not being able to boot into Windows 7 at Grub and press S to skip mounting when booting to Linux Mint 17.2. To solve the problem of having to press S to skip mounting.
What I did was first I created a copy of /etc/fstab opening as Sudo and saved it where I could access it.
Secondly, as I have ntfs-config installed I deleted the duplicate reference to DISK C. On booting into Linux Mint, nfs-config informed it had found a new drive. I ticked the box and it was automatically mounted. Checking with the original copy of the fstab, most importantly I deleted the extra line. What really helped me was seeing in linuxquestion.org someone wrote every partition has a unique UUID and Linux distributions pick up on this as Disk Labels change.
Next, I opened Grub-Customizer, if you don't have it installed, install it! In Grub-Customizer I saw that it had a custom script for C instead of showing Windows 7 on SDB1 and os.probe. I created a new entry and it found the Windows 7 on SDB1 and duly had the line os.probe. I deleted the custom script, reset the default booting order I wanted: Success no delay in booting into either Linux Mint 17.2 or Windows Boot Loader.
Last edited by moshebagelfresser; 08-13-2015 at 06:33 AM.
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