(cache) [SOLVED] fstab: silently ignore errors on startup

vbSteve

Hi,

I have an external USB hard drive configured in fstab to mount using UUID. Everything mounts fine, but when I unplug the drive and the server starts up again, it's telling me that the drive is not ready or present (obviously, because it's unplugged), but the startup sequence gets stuck on that error.

How do I make it so that it ignores that error automatically if it's not present. It's not a vital drive, just user data and i have to unplug the drive because otherwise it keeps spinning and it will wear too much over time. I also want the drive to get automatically mounted when I plug it back in, so that i don't have to loggon to my server first.

Anyway, here are the lines that I have in my fstab:
UUID=3253b05f-ce8f-4ea0-afb8-1bb212be1e45 /home/store/usb-store ext4 defaults,user 0 0

Anyone got a solution for this?
Thanks.

Morbius1

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Anyway, here are the lines that I have in my fstab:
UUID=3253b05f-ce8f-4ea0-afb8-1bb212be1e45 /home/store/usb-store ext4 defaults,user 0 0

Anyone got a solution for this?

Add one more option to the fstab line: noauto

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UUID=3253b05f-ce8f-4ea0-afb8-1bb212be1e45 /home/store/usb-store ext4 defaults,user,noauto 0 0

vanadium

"noauto" just won't automatically mount the drive. You need to mount it when logged in.
You probably want to use the "nofail" option.

dcstar

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Originally Posted by vanadium

"noauto" just won't automatically mount the drive. You need to mount it when logged in.
You probably want to use the "nofail" option.

Don't bet on it:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ll/+bug/610869

December 25th, 2010	#1
vbSteve Spilled the Beans Join Date: Oct 2010 Beans: 13	fstab: silently ignore errors on startup Hi, I have an external USB hard drive configured in fstab to mount using UUID. Everything mounts fine, but when I unplug the drive and the server starts up again, it's telling me that the drive is not ready or present (obviously, because it's unplugged), but the startup sequence gets stuck on that error. How do I make it so that it ignores that error automatically if it's not present. It's not a vital drive, just user data and i have to unplug the drive because otherwise it keeps spinning and it will wear too much over time. I also want the drive to get automatically mounted when I plug it back in, so that i don't have to loggon to my server first. Anyway, here are the lines that I have in my fstab: UUID=3253b05f-ce8f-4ea0-afb8-1bb212be1e45 /home/store/usb-store ext4 defaults,user 0 0 Anyone got a solution for this? Thanks.

December 25th, 2010	#3
vanadium Chocolate-Covered Ubuntu Beans Join Date: Apr 2007 Beans: 2,292 Ubuntu	Re: fstab: silently ignore errors on startup "noauto" just won't automatically mount the drive. You need to mount it when logged in. You probably want to use the "nofail" option.