[GRLUG] fstab query

[Eric Beversluis]

I suspect it would work using /dev/sdc2. The reason I wanted to use the
UUID was in case it got moved to a different USB port or something else
caused it to be something other than 'sdc'. We'll be running a cron job
to back up to that drive and don't want a problem in case at some point
it becomes /dev/sdd2. Is that something we need to worry about?

On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 14:24 -0500, Mark Farver wrote:
> Try putting the /dev/sdc2 entry into fstab instead of the UID.  Make
> sure you can then mount and unmount the drive by typing "mount
> /mnt/ioSafe"  If that works then you can reboot.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Eric Beversluis
> <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> > We are trying to insert a line into fstab on a ClearOS (based on CentOS)
> > server to mount an ioSafe on reboot. Something doesn't seem to be
> > working right. The first time we rebooted after inserting the line (see
> > below) into fstab, it crashed. We removed the line from fstab and
> > manually mounted the ioSafe. Another time we tried again; this time it
> > seemed to boot ok but the ioSafe did not mount.
> >
> > Are we going about this right?
> > We formated the ioSafe this way (retaining the GPT partition table):
> > Num Start  End    Size   File sys Name                         Flags
> > 1   17.4kB 134MB  134MB           Microsoft reserved partition msftres
> > 2   135MB  4001GB 4001GB ext4     Basic data partition
> >
> > (Research seemed to suggest it best to leave the MS reserved partition.)
> >
> > The fstab line we entered was this:
> > UUID=dd06173e-9fb2-47f8-8841-5ed96e4d4ee4 /mnt/ioSafe ext4
> > defaults,nofail 0 0
> >
> > (The first time we set the <pass> value to 2.)
> >
> > It has been suggested that the reason this fstab entry doesn't work is
> > that the first partition does not have the ext4 file system.
> >
> > --Does any know, is that really the case--that it won't mount partition
> > 2 (using the UUID of partition 2) because partition one is a different
> > file type? It mounts partition 2 fine manually from the 'mount' command
> > (using /dev/sdc2; I haven't tried using the UUID with mount) .
> >
> > --if so, can I just delete the first partition and leave blank space? I
> > would not want to re-format the whole drive, since we already have
> > backup data on it.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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