<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>I have an external USB Hard Drive connected to my desktop running Ubuntu Lucid. I want this hard drive to be available all the time (I rearly take it with me). I added the following line in the '/etc/fstab' file, followin advice I got via this list:</div>
<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">UUID=4c881181-6b15-4910-a09f-0f3c88354440 /Data ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks 0 0</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><br>
</span></div><div><span style=""></span>It worked fine for a long time, but lately I started to notice the disk is not mounted when I try to access files on it. Sometimes running 'sudo mount /Data' is enough, but sometimes I get an error saying the UUID does not exist...</div>
<div><br></div><div>It usually happens after a long time I don't use the computer (more than 30 minutes). I have set my screen saver to 'Picture Folder' and that folder is a symlink to a directory on that disk, so it's been accessed all the time...</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is the hard drive faulty?</div><div>Is there a system check I can run to verify?</div><div>Where do I look for clues?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>Amichai.</div></div>