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Tony0945
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 Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 5:20 pm Post subject: Best options for external USB hard drive ? |
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Considering using this: | Code: | | #LABEL=10TBbackup /mnt/backup ext4 auto,user 0 0 |
Should there really be no fscheck? Any other otions like relatime? or nofail?
Or should I have noauto and mount it manually every time I plug it in?
BTW, on boot it was detected as sda, even though the former sda is a SATA SSD. All the letters moved down one letter.
Following long ago advice from NeddySeagoon, every physical drive (except /dev/sr0) mounts by label. Else I would have found my system unbootable!
I only have one DVD drive. Once I had a system with two and yes, Windows kept swapping D: and E: |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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Tony0945,
Auto will only mount the partition if its there when localmount runs at startup.
It the drive is not connected at boot, it won't do anything unless you run as root.
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Computer users fall into two groups:-
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Tony0945
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| Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Ah! So otherwise play tricks like pmount or simply open a terminal and tyoe "mount /mnt/backup". |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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Tony0945,
Yep
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