Unable to auto mount a data disk from /etc/fstab but mounts with mount -a command

Iliko

4/27/24, 8:42 AM

Here are the commands I ran:

~$ lsblk
NAME    MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0     7:0    0 63.3M  1 loop /snap/core20/1852
loop1     7:1    0 49.9M  1 loop /snap/snapd/18596
loop2     7:2    0 91.9M  1 loop /snap/lxd/24061
sda       8:0    0   30G  0 disk
├─sda1    8:1    0 29.9G  0 part /
├─sda14   8:14   0    4M  0 part
└─sda15   8:15   0  106M  0 part /boot/efi
sdb       8:16   0   75G  0 disk
└─sdb1    8:17   0   75G  0 part /mnt
sdc       8:32   0  128G  0 disk
└─sdc1    8:33   0  128G  0 part

as you see, sdc1 is not mounted then I run

dev-mio-admin@mio-vm:~$ sudo mount -a

and

dev-mio-admin@mio-vm:~$ lsblk

and we can see sdc1 is mounted to /mnt/disk1

NAME    MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0     7:0    0 63.3M  1 loop /snap/core20/1852
loop1     7:1    0 49.9M  1 loop /snap/snapd/18596
loop2     7:2    0 91.9M  1 loop /snap/lxd/24061
sda       8:0    0   30G  0 disk
├─sda1    8:1    0 29.9G  0 part /
├─sda14   8:14   0    4M  0 part
└─sda15   8:15   0  106M  0 part /boot/efi
sdb       8:16   0   75G  0 disk
└─sdb1    8:17   0   75G  0 part /mnt
sdc       8:32   0  128G  0 disk
└─sdc1    8:33   0  128G  0 part /mnt/disk1

Here is the line in my /etc/fstab file

UUID=1c0adda6-1cc1-450d-89ee-76d26d384b13  /mnt/disk1   ext4   defaults   0 1

Why wouldn't it get attached automatically?

Thanks beforehand.

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mook765

4/27/24, 11:36 AM

Why would you use `/mnt/disk1` as mountpoint for one partition while using `/mnt` as mountpoint for another partition? Maybe `sdc1` was mounted on `/mnt/disk1` during boot but the mount was superseeded then by mounting `sbd1` on `/mnt`?

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Iliko

4/27/24, 2:01 PM

It seems that you are mounting /mnt and then /mnt/disk1 which are different drives. Sometimes it appears /mnt mounts first and then /mnt/disk1 second. However, in some cases it’s trying to mount /mnt/disk1 which fails. So I changed the mount point to /data/disk1 and all works fine now.

Thanks @mook765

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user68186

4/27/24, 2:18 PM

It is a good practice to make different folders inside `/mnt/` as different mount points to different disks/partitions and not use `/mnt/` as a mount point. Just as it is a good practice not to keep your documents directly like this: `C:\My_Resume.docx`.

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