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Joshi
Asked: 2016-03-15 11:07:52 +0800 CST

Problem booting Ubuntu Server after editing /etc/fstab to mount secondary hdd

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I have added a secondary hdd to my server and modified the /etc/fstab with the line

UUID=1579e689-3965-47db-83a7-665cceeb6aff /media/storage ext4 defaults 0 0

but now when I am rebooting the server it is around 15 minutes it is still in progress. Should I wait longer as the secondary hdd has lot of data in it and that could be the reason for longer boot time.

Please suggest if I have done it right or some thing wrong with the modificaation?

12.04

1 Answers

  1. The problem was resolved. How far this is correct I am not sure, but I resolved it like this. I was not creating the mount point that /media/storage and adding the line to /etc/fstab The directory storage was automatically being created in /media/ and on manual mount it was working fine.

    But I read somewhere that you have to create the mount point with root privileges so I deleted the storage directory and created another directory with the command sudo mkdir /media/server-backup and modified the /etc/fstab accordingly.

    Then I rebooted the machine and I didn't face any problem the secondary hdd was mounted without any problem.

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