USB mountpoints jumping around

[Sorin Srbu]

On Tue, 2022-12-13 at 10:03 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2022 at 09:35, Sorin Srbu via ubuntu-users
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > 
> > After some googling I found a reference to the noauto flag one could use
> > in
> > fstab, for  storage you do not want to mount at boot.
> > So, I replaced the normal defaults flag with noauto and rebooted the
> > laptop
> > without the 5 TB drive, and I still get the fsck thing mentioned above.
> 
> Can you show us the fstab line please.
> 
> In fact perhaps you want nofail rather than noauto, so that it will
> try to mount it but not fail if it is not there.  That does not
> explain why noauto does not work.  Are you sure you have not got
> another line for it in fstab?
> 
> Colin

Of course, please see below.


# Seagate 5TB Game Drive for Veeam agent for linux
##UUID="f3824a62-601a-4d3d-9479-e40e25e6571d /home/sorin/backup ext3 noaouto
0 0


No other lines in fstab regarding to this usb drive.
The only other lines are for 

/
/boot
/boot/efi
/home
swap






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