[GRLUG] fstab query

[Mark Farver]

I would verify it works with the dev entry, if it does you can start
figuring out why it won't work by UUID.

This may be helpful, it seems to imply you need the usb driver in the
initrd image.

http://nigglingaspirations.blogspot.com/2010/07/usb-drive-fstab-uuid-arch-linux.html

Maybe mounting by UUID is only done once before the pivot root.

Mark Farver

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Eric Beversluis
<ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> 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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