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I have a 3TB USB 3.0 External HDD (Seagate) that I would like my Debian machine to pick up on boot so that I can use rsync to backup to it using cron.
If i unplug the drive and plug it back in then it shows up when I do:
/dev/disk/by-uuid -lah
Then I can mount it (the UUID is in fstab already) by doing:
sudo mount -a
Unfortunately when I reboot the drive is not detected. This is a headless Linux box.
The drive is NTFS formatted.
Help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Omar Mir
Posted 2012-08-06T22:24:40.523
Reputation: 213
1Is it the /dev/disk/by-uuid/ link that is not present, or the actual device? – Paul – 2012-08-07T05:34:59.993
The actual device. If I unplug the USB and plug it back in then the device shows up. – Omar Mir – 2012-08-07T16:10:24.723
After rebooting does the device show up when you run lsusb? This is before the /dev shows up but while the device is plugged in – Mark McDonald – 2012-08-10T00:19:33.627
It could be power stabilization time. 3TB USB 3.0 HDD is huge. It might not be ready by when udevadm runs. What do you see in your kernel log file when you plug it in? What do you see when you cold-boot with the HDD pluged in? Does anything change if you hot reboot? – Yasushi Shoji – 2012-08-14T15:51:02.990
Have you tried simply using gvfs? That should pick it up ok. – terdon – 2012-08-16T14:41:57.720
lsusb has no effect @i.. - I have tried that as per a few suggestions in my research. – Omar Mir – 2012-08-17T01:45:43.940
@YasushiShoji I'll try that, I normally don't have a screen attached to the system. – Omar Mir – 2012-08-17T01:46:23.223
@terdon not sure I can use gvfs on a headless, gnome-less box. – Omar Mir – 2012-08-17T01:46:42.240
@OmarMir, you do not have to have a screen attached. Check the files under
/var/log/. – Yasushi Shoji – 2012-08-17T03:46:06.320@YasushiShoji I'll try that soon and get back to you :) – Omar Mir – 2012-08-20T00:38:44.390
What does this mount's
/etc/fstabentry look like? What did your look at the log files tell you? – zero2cx – 2012-09-20T17:46:52.427