[SOLVED] edited fstab to get one drive to automount at start up but then errors

sdowney717 · 10-12-2017, 07:19 PM

on all the other drives.

example, added the last line to fstab

Code:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sdb8 during installation
UUID=14fc12a3-680f-4da7-84a4-c9f3664faa3d /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /home was on /dev/sdb5 during installation
UUID=0db1fb5a-0727-4347-bfa7-a551d8db6632 /home           ext4    defaults        0       2
# swap was on /dev/sdb6 during installation
UUID=388b3c4a-93a3-473c-89ec-77e8688e5845 none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
#automount for minidlna
UUID=1ca42e1a-c943-4755-b8e5-a9a6e91f4ed6 /media/scott           ext4    defaults        0       2

Then run sudo mount -a
It showed up as a mount under /media/scott ok.

Then on the files page, all the volumes which are drives give me this error.
in the screenshot
I just want to be ale to automount a drive and not have problems with the file manager

frankbell · 10-12-2017, 07:51 PM

I assume you have double-checked the UUID number.

It's a shot in the dark, but try changing "defaults" to "rw,user,auto."

If it works, great. If not and if the error message changes, we may make some progress.

Also, what is the output of ls -l /media/scott.

jefro · 10-12-2017, 09:17 PM

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ondoho · 10-13-2017, 12:24 PM

please try to mount that drive in another location.
not under /media.
maybe under /mnt.
might also solve your other thread.

sdowney717 · 10-13-2017, 12:58 PM

I figured out some things.
I wanted 2 of the drives to automount at boot. I have total of 4 drives in the PC.
I got the 2 drives to automount, here is the code for fstab for me.

Plus, simply saving the fstab file causes it to mount or dismount when making changes in fstab. No need to run mount command. You can verify that by leaving the file manager window open to watch it.

Code:

#automount for minidlna
UUID=1ca42e1a-c943-4755-b8e5-a9a6e91f4ed6 /media/bob           ext4    defaults        0       2
UUID=263e8967-7eef-4dbd-8eb0-0ab1fcd1c41e /media/scott           ext4    defaults        0       2

And it also works ok with nautilus file manager. I dont know what caused those weird error messages on all those volumes.

I gave up trying to use uuid in the paths to the drives for Kaffeine and ME-TV and minidlna for the TV recordings.
With the drives automounted, at least on a boot up, minidlna server shares out the recorded files ok.

I had to make a /media/bob folder, I have 2 drives to automount and I could not think of another way to do that.
Would making a folder like, /media/scott/drive1 and /media/scott/drive2 have worked? Both drives can't go to the same mount point, like /media/scott.

Here are the scanned folders, I left one with a uuid which I dont use, just as an example of what not to do, plus this can be cleaned up too.

Code:

# Path to the directory you want scanned for media files.
#
# This option can be specified more than once if you want multiple directories
# scanned.
#
# If you want to restrict a media_dir to a specific content type, you can
# prepend the directory name with a letter representing the type (A, P or V),
# followed by a comma, as so:
#   * "A" for audio    (eg. media_dir=A,/var/lib/minidlna/music)
#   * "P" for pictures (eg. media_dir=P,/var/lib/minidlna/pictures)
#   * "V" for video    (eg. media_dir=V,/var/lib/minidlna/videos)
#   * "PV" for pictures and video (eg. media_dir=PV,/var/lib/minidlna/digital_camera)
#media_dir=/var/lib/minidlna
media_dir=/home/scott/Music
#media_dir=/home/scott/Kaffeine-recordings
media_dir=V,/media/bob/kaffeine-TV-recordings
media_dir=V,/media/scott
media_dir=/media/scott/0C3655E6635050E4

ondoho · 10-13-2017, 01:14 PM

on my system, the /media folder is a special folder used by system utilities (fuse and others, i guess).
i would not use it to set up a mount.

sdowney717 · 10-13-2017, 01:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

on my system, the /media folder is a special folder used by system utilities (fuse and others, i guess).
i would not use it to set up a mount.

I just followed examples of what I found on google searching, to use /media foder.
So can you use any folder. even make one in your home folder?
Like /home/scott/drive1

jefro · 10-13-2017, 03:08 PM

The old way to mount was to create a sub-directory first then mount to that sub-directory. Permissions would have to be modified if the user doesn't have file based permissions.