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Mount USB drive at boot?

Asked by lifestream

How can I boot my NTFS USB drive at boot?
I have this in fstab:
UUID=55D123D9E79ABF54 /media/USB\040Drive ntfs-3g defaults,force,users 0 0
I've also tried:
/dev/sdb1 /media/USB\040Drive ntfs-3g defaults,force,users 0 0

Which does NOT work, however if I mount manually:
mount /dev/sdb1
or
mount -a

It works.

What's wrong? Can you help me?

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lifestream (lifestream) said : 		#1

I've also tried with auto, without force, without users.........
I've tried with UUID.
I've tried putting it on cron tab.
What am I doing wrong?

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lifestream (lifestream) said : 		#2

Ah yeah forgot to mention, for the people who don't realize \040 is not a bad thing -_-;
YES I have tried without spaces. I'm not dumb :P

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Christophe Painchaud (dash-ionblast) said : 		#3

Hello,

I think you forgot option 'auto' , for auto-mount at startup:

auto and noauto With the auto option, the device will be mounted automatically (at bootup, just like I told you a bit earlier, or when you issue the mount -a command). auto is the default option. If you don't want the device to be mounted automatically, use the noauto option in /etc/fstab. With noauto, the device can be mounted only explicitly.

so ... the result would be:

UUID=55D123D9E79ABF54 /media/USB\040Drive ntfs-3g auto,defaults,force,users 0 0

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Christophe Painchaud (dash-ionblast) said : 		#4

I noticed that sometimes if auto is not specified, it wont mount at boot even if its the default ...

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lifestream (lifestream) said : 		#5

That didn't work either. I ended up just backing up the drive and formatting it to ext3. It mounts fine at boot now.
Thanks.