USB mountpoints jumping around

[Sorin Srbu]

On Tue, 2022-12-13 at 11:11 +0000, Sorin Srbu via ubuntu-users wrote:
> 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...
> 

Okay, so now the laptop boots properly with the noauto fstab line active and
no usb-drive connected.

I think maybe I should do a mount entry in crontab, to run just before the
scheduled veeam backup job starts, just in case I forget to manually mount
it.

What can I expect now, if I connect the usb-drive after a boot?
I must manually mount the usb-drive now and it will stay mounted until the
next shutdown, correct?


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