Mounting SATA drive on start-up [SOLVED]

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Mounting SATA drive on start-up [SOLVED]

Post by Jaggies »

Hi

I've recently changed to Mint from the one beginning with U, and am finding it's behaviour slightly different (as expected). This forum has provided me with the solution to one annoyance, but I can't find a reason for the following strange behaviour.

I installed PSYDM to configure my second hard drive to automatically mount on start-up. The main drive is 160GB and has the OS etc. installed on it as /dev/sda1. The second drive is 1TB and is /dev/sdb1 and is where most of my files are located.

When I run PSYDM and choose /dev/sdb1 as the partition I want to mount and enter the name, options etc., it applies the same settings to both drives. It then becomes a lottery as to which one is mounted on start-up as media/Hitachi1TB. The line PSYDM writes to FSTAB is as follows:
  • /dev/sdb1 /media/Hitachi1TB ext4 defaults 0 0
Am I missing anything obvious?
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Re: Mounting SATA drive on start-up

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Not sure why you need pysdm at all? Just create the mount point and manually add the appropriate line to fstab using the UUID= format for the 1TB drive.
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Re: Mounting SATA drive on start-up

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When I run PSYDM and choose /dev/sdb1 as the partition I want to mount and enter the name, options etc., it applies the same settings to both drives. It then becomes a lottery as to which one is mounted on start-up as media/Hitachi1TB. The line PSYDM writes to FSTAB is as follows:

/dev/sdb1 /media/Hitachi1TB ext4 defaults 0 0


Am I missing anything obvious?
Here's the problem with pysdm ( and all the rest of these so called utilities ), they were all written before folks determined the best way to to this was by UUID as remoulder stated above. Since pysdm hasn't been updated and is no longer maintained ( just like the other utilities ) you will need to edit fstab by hand changing "/dev/sdb1" to some UUID number like "UUID=DA9056C19056A3B3"

Run the following command to find the right UUID number:

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sudo blkid -c /dev/null
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Jaggies

Re: Mounting SATA drive on start-up

Post by Jaggies »

altair4 wrote:you will need to edit fstab by hand changing "/dev/sdb1" to some UUID number like "UUID=DA9056C19056A3B3"

Run the following command to find the right UUID number:

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sudo blkid -c /dev/null
Sorted, thanks.
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