How do I get USB hard drives to boot plugged with OS drive??

[yazyazoo]

So I finally got Samba working with my 3 NTFS drives. I tried to put it in another location and unplugged it. I couldn't get back into the Pogo. I had to reinstall everything over again.

I found some instructions on how to get it to automount but they didn't work. Here is what they wrote:

For auto-mounting these devices each time after Pogo is rebooted, run below commands
nano /etc/fstab
Then paste this line ->
UUID="ABCD" /mnt/dirname ntfs defaults 0 0 # Put your device's UUID instead of ABCD. My HDDs are ntfs type. Put your own type if different. Add one line for each device with it's UUID and type (e.g. ntfs). If you don't know the UUID, run this command blkid -o list -c /dev/null
Now just save this file and exit.

Now power off/on Pogo and check if it boots properly in ALARM and if you can access the HDDs over LAN by \\ALARM or \\192.168.x.y where 192.168.x.y is the Pogo's IP address

I did this and it still won't even boot into Arch. Do these instructions look right or do I need to add something else like an install of another package? Also does the UUID need the quotes around it? I didn't put any.

Thanks.

[Socaltom]

You can't just "paste" that into the fstab, you have to enter your specific drive information.

1) remove all that info from your fstab
2) $this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'pacman -Sy udev-automount')
3) plug in your drives
4) type "df" for disk free ( tells you space available and what the device is mounted as


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('yazyazoo', 'S')o I finally got Samba working with my 3 NTFS drives. I tried to put it in another location and unplugged it. I couldn't get back into the Pogo. I had to reinstall everything over again.

I found some instructions on how to get it to automount but they didn't work. Here is what they wrote:

For auto-mounting these devices each time after Pogo is rebooted, run below commands
nano /etc/fstab
Then paste this line ->
UUID="ABCD" /mnt/dirname ntfs defaults 0 0 # Put your device's UUID instead of ABCD. My HDDs are ntfs type. Put your own type if different. Add one line for each device with it's UUID and type (e.g. ntfs). If you don't know the UUID, run this command blkid -o list -c /dev/null
Now just save this file and exit.

Now power off/on Pogo and check if it boots properly in ALARM and if you can access the HDDs over LAN by \\ALARM or \\192.168.x.y where 192.168.x.y is the Pogo's IP address

I did this and it still won't even boot into Arch. Do these instructions look right or do I need to add something else like an install of another package? Also does the UUID need the quotes around it? I didn't put any.

Thanks.

[moonman]

udev-automount WILL NOT work with NTFS drives, this has been discussed before guys. Read the reenabling automounting thread, specifically the very last post.

[yazyazoo]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('moonman', 'u')dev-automount WILL NOT work with NTFS drives, this has been discussed before guys. Read the reenabling automounting thread, specifically the very last post.

[moonman]

No need for fstab. Just install and enable devmon

[yazyazoo]

So I wouldn't need to list my external hard drive anywhere? udevil will figure it out?

[moonman]

Yes. If the partitions are labeled, then they will be mounted under /media/<label> , if not then /media/hd-sdX or similar

[yazyazoo]

I tried this.

My external hard drive is sdb1

So I mounted with: mount /dev/sdb1 movies

Installed udevil and enabled and started root.

I then tried to reboot the system.

This time I can still log in to pogoplug but my hard drive is lost and I can't see it from my windows PC. I go back and do lsblk

I see this drive has been changed to /media/media rather than /movies.

What do i need to change to get this to work?

[moonman]

The problem with fstab is that if you reboot without the hdd in fstab it won't boot. It gets stuck at the message that it can't find the hdd, but since you can't connect monitor you can only see that over serial. If you want to get the hdd mounted there there are 2 options:

1. create a symlink /movies to /media/<mountpoint>
2. add fstab entry with whatever options you had + these two: "noauto,x-systemd.automount"

[Socaltom]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('yazyazoo', 'I') tried this.

My external hard drive is sdb1

So I mounted with: mount /dev/sdb1 movies