Old cubox (Armada) does’n mount automatically external drive

[skelosParticipant]

Hello,
in Cubox Armada I have an external hard drive and I see it in /dev as sda/sda1.
So I expect foud it contents mounted in /media/ folder but nothing is present.

I try to add this row
UUID=705E491E5E48DF0A /media/taverna ntfs rw,utf8=1,shortname=mixed,auto,nofail 0 0
into /etc/fstab reading UUID from here

root@geexbox:/# lbkid
-sh: lbkid: not found
root@geexbox:/# blkid
/dev/mmcblk0: PTUUID="d145cc9e" PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/mmcblk0p1: LABEL="GEEXBOX" UUID="66db09c3-22c2-48fa-8772-5951f936e1bc" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="d145cc9e-01"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="SAMSUNG" UUID="705E491E5E48DF0A" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="cb6d1d2b-01"

but nothing changed.

If I mount it manually it works fine.

I would know how to find it automounted after each boot.

Thanks.

• This topic was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by skelos.

[skelosParticipant]

Just for improve informations:
if I edit fstab file and write ro instead rw the disk is mounted fine but it is in read only mode.

this is not useful for me: I need rw

• This reply was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by skelos.

[skelosParticipant]

I share also what I discovered testing.

I restored fstab as previously shown.

I try to mount disk on /media/taverna/ folder.

If I remove taverna folder manually and reboot, when system goes on I type a ‘ps’ command and I have:

........
  711 root     /bin/mount -n /dev/disk/by-uuid/705E491E5E48DF0A /media/taverna
  714 root     /sbin/mount.ntfs /dev/sda1 /media/taverna -n -o rw,utf8=1,shortname=mixed,nofail
.......

In this configuration disk is mounted fine.

If I DON’T REMOVE taverna folder and reboot, when system goes on I have:

......
  734 root     /sbin/mount.ntfs /dev/sda1 /media/taverna -n -o rw,utf8=1,shortname=mixed,nofail
....

only and nothing in /media/taverna is shown: it appears empty but if I type a ‘umount /dev/sda1’ disk is unmounted fine (so, it was mounted)

Please help me.

• This reply was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by skelos.

[Warped RudiKeymaster]

No idea. But I would avoid NTFS by any means. It’s the worst file system to use on Linux.
Furthermore, when mounting a volume manually/via fstab I would mount it under /nmt rather than under /media in order to avoid interference with removable drives.

Edit: I assume that the drive is connected to the eSATA port. Only in this case you need the entry in fstab. If it’s USB, then it should be mounted automatically under /media.

• This reply was modified 2 months ago by Warped Rudi.
• This reply was modified 2 months ago by Warped Rudi.

[skelosParticipant]

Thank buy It Is an USB removable drive and It is NOT automatically mounted.

Could you clarify witch component does mount It automatically so I could check why automount fails?

[Warped RudiKeymaster]

I don’t really know the details. But is that Cubox up to date? You might want to try reinstalling the packages ‘udisks’, ‘linux-util-ng’ and ‘ntfs-3g’.
I tested a FAT32 stick on my old Cubox and it mounted just fine. However, the GUID looked rather different. I.e. multiple groups of hex numbers, not just a single string as yours.

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