<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Apr 20, 2009, at 11:26 AM, MG wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br>current fstab with lost hard drives:<br><br># /etc/fstab: static file system information.<br>#<br># -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config -- <br>#<br># <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass><br> <br>proc /proc proc defaults 0 0<br># Entry for /dev/sda1 :<br>UUID=d053ecd0-1482-4cfc-8b34-1d821a41f843 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1<br># Entry for /dev/sda5 :<br>UUID=8c6a2356-9c6b-4ef1-9b65-8e6edbf76120 none swap sw 0 0<br> /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0<br> none /mnt/ramfs tmpfs defaults 0 0<br># Entry for /dev/sdc1 :<br>UUID=17E8-082F /dev/sdc1 /media/External/usb1 vfat rw,hard,intr 0 0<br> # Entry for /dev/sdb1 :<br>UUID=F400580C0057D468 /dev/sdb1 /media/External/usb2 ntfs-3g rw,hard,intr 0 0<br># Entry for /dev/sdd1 :<br>UUID=A46C9A946C9A60BA /dev/sdd1 /media/External/usb3 ntfs-3g rw,hard,intr 0 0<br> <br>What am I doing wrong?<br></blockquote><div><br></div>Change the following:</div><div><br></div><div>UUID=17E8-082F /dev/sdc1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>/media/External/usb1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>vfat<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>rw,hard,intr<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>0<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>0</div><div>to:</div><div>/dev/sdc1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>/media/External/usb1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>vfat<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>rw,hard,intr<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>0<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>0</div><div>or:</div><div>UUID=valid_uuid_here<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>/media/External/usb1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>vfat<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>rw,hard,intr<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>0<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>0</div><div><br></div><div>Do the same for /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdd1. As a note, you either use /dev/partition OR UUID in the fstab file, not both, as you are doing in the above.</div><div><br></div><div>To get a valid UUID for a partition, make sure your device is connected, then run a 'sudo vol_id -u /dev/partition' where /dev/partition is one of your above listed partitions (/dev/sdc1, /dev/sdb1, or /dev/sdd1).</div><div><blockquote type="cite"> -- <br>ubuntu-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>