USB mountpoints jumping around

[Sorin Srbu]

On Tue, 2022-12-13 at 12:10 +0100, Sorin Srbu wrote:
> 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

And I just realized I misspelled noauto. Oh, gods...



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