[Solved] External USB Hard Drive Does Not Mount

[rdh61]

Linux Mint 21.3 (upgrade from 21.1) on Lenovo Ideacentre AIO 520-22IKU.

My 2TB WD external hard drive does not mount on start-up. I have to unplug it and plug it in again. I use this hard drive for my Backintime backups, which are scheduled to run at 8 a.m. every day. But they don't run because Backintime cannot find the drive.

I have read a similar recent thread (from which I stole the title) which remains unsolved.

Any help gratefully received.

[Hawaiihemd]

Have you tried to add the uuid of the partition in question to your /etc/fstab? That should do the trick. I suggest you use the "nofail" option, otherwise you computer won't boot if the drive is not plugged in.

[rdh61]

Have you tried to add the uuid of the partition in question to your /etc/fstab? That should do the trick. I suggest you use the "nofail" option, otherwise you computer won't boot if the drive is not plugged in.

Thank you for your response. The uuid is eeeec87b-13fd-48ac-b13e-36811025c340. It is Ext4 and the Disks application tells me it is device /dev/sdb1. How exactly should I add it to fstab; I mean what should I type?

[Hawaiihemd]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab should explain it all.

[rdh61]

@Hawaiihemd Thank you.

[Hawaiihemd]

Glad I could help!