[SOLVED] Can not get sdb5 to consistently auto mount on bootup

Fixit7 · 01-02-2016, 06:19 PM

I can not get sdb5 to consistently mount on bootup. ??

Quote:

fstab

none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=2,mode=620 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults,size=1G 0 0
# SDA5 Puppy 5.9.3
#UUID="ae03ec69-b09e-48c2-815d-58a494be70cc" /dev/sda5 ext3 defaults,relatime,data=writeback 0 0
# SDA1 Windows XP Partition
UUID="5E1006FC1006DAC3" /media/windows/ ntfs defaults 0 0
# SDB1 Backup Toshiba Partition 1st partition of the external drive
UUID="9C24D67524D651BE" /Linux_Files ntfs defaults 0 0
# SDB5 2nd Toshiba Partition
UUID="01D050F76A0DD520" /2nd_Toshiba ntfs defaults 0 0

Quote:

# blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="Windows_XP_Partition" UUID="5E1006FC1006DAC3" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: UUID="2283a695-22ae-444c-bb2f-93d4f8592d4f" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda5: LABEL="Puppy_5.9.3_SDA5" UUID="ae03ec69-b09e-48c2-815d-58a494be70cc" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="Backup_Toshiba_Partition" UUID="9C24D67524D651BE" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb5: LABEL="2nd_Toshiba_Partition" UUID="01D050F76A0DD520" TYPE="ntfs"

Both sdb1 and sdb5 are on the same external drive.

Fixit7 · 01-02-2016, 08:15 PM

This year is starting great. :-)

I found the problem.

Apparently Linux does not play well wheb _ is used in a mount point name.

I had 2nd_Toshiba as my mount point.

Changing it to 2ndToshiba resulted in the partition being mounted.