USB auto mount on reboot

[HydroDiOxide]

Hi,

I've got a Pi2 running headless with a usb thumbdrive attached for some extra storage. Every now and then I reboot the Pi, mainly after updating. I've created a systemd mount file for the USB drive, but somehow I always have to mount the drive manually on reboot. I think it wasn't like this a while back, but I'm not sure. The .mount file is as follows:

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[Unit]
Description=Mount USB at boot

[Mount]
What=/dev/sda1
Where=/mnt/LOCATION
Options=nofail
Type=ntfs-3g
TimeoutSec=45

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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Any clue on why the drive isn't mounting automatically on a reboot?

[ufo6000]

Why not fstab ?

to your xyz.mount:
after a reboot, and it has failed, check the status and post it here:

sudo systemctl status xyz.mount
and/or
sudo journalctl -u xyz.mount

[HydroDiOxide]

Hey. Thanks.

I thought keeping things in one place would be good, so that's why I chose systemd and not fstab. Is fstab more stable?

The behaviour seems to be rather intermittent now. I tried rebooting under different circumstances (with and without other windows shares available) and the USB drives seems to come up fine. I'll report back when it goes sideways again.

[ufo6000]

fstab is more common and well known, but if you are familiar with systemd a mount unit is fine too. Please use what you are feeling better with

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