[Solved] additional hard drive doesn't boot

[vandykmarsu]

Hi folks, i switch from Apple to MX Linux.

On my new PC i add a additional hard drive to storage all my Mac Data.

I look on the web to add it into /etc/fstab etc, but doesn't boot on startup.

Have MX 19.1

Have anyone an idea to solve my isue please?

Great regards.

[JayM]

Welcome to the forum. Do you mean boot or mount? Those are two different things.

[vandykmarsu]

@JayM

I mean at startup sorry :P

Have a folder where the drive are mount, but not visible in Thunar side bar.

How i can do that permanent?

[fehlix]

Have a folder where the drive are mount, but not visible in Thunar side bar.

Perhaps show the entry in fstab you are using.
You might want to add some mount options so it will show up in Thunar like those:

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x-gvfs-show,x-gvfs-name=USB-Harddisk,x-gvfs-icon=drive-harddisk-usb-symbolic,x-gvfs-symbolic-icon=drive-harddisk-usb-symbolic

[m_frank]

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You may want to take a look at disk manager:

• Type in diskm on the whisker menu, and select Disk Manager
• Right-Click the desktop, select Application -> System -> Disk Manager from the popup menu
• In a Terminal window from the command line:

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  sudo disk-manager
  

Should get a nice overview of the partitions, and ability to manage which are mounted on which mount points with which options.

[vandykmarsu]

Thanks for your reply's :D

Here my folder where my disk3 are mount:



And here the location i want for my disk3:



How i can do that my drive mounting in the peripherals section?

[fehlix]

Here my folder where my disk3 are mount:

As already requested, do post the content of /etc/fstab,
e.g. by running this from command line and copy'n'paste the text output here:

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cat /etc/fstab

or open in featherpad:

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fpad /etc/fstab

and do post the text content of /etc/fstab between those code - tags like thos [code]code brackets[/code]

[vandykmarsu]

Here what are i my fstab:

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#Entry for /dev/sda2 :
UUID=ad8fab1b-b68e-4074-94f9-1d6641de9c9c	/	ext4	defaults	1	1
#Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=65F7-0856	/boot/efi	vfat	defaults,noatime,dmask=0002,fmask=0113	0	0
#Entry for /dev/sdc1 :
UUID=bfd5b9cc-e7aa-47ef-9fa1-ddd02b6ee2a1	/disk3	ext4	defaults,relatime	0	0
#Entry for /dev/sda3 :
UUID=0ed9e5ad-3519-405a-9dc4-a7491583a2a3	swap	swap	defaults	0	0
dev/sdc1	/disk3     ext4	defaults	1	2

[fehlix]

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#Entry for /dev/sda2 :
#Entry for /dev/sdc1 :
UUID=bfd5b9cc-e7aa-47ef-9fa1-ddd02b6ee2a1	/disk3	ext4	defaults,relatime	0	0

How is the external hd connected ? USB2, USB3 , eSATA etc ppp?

[fehlix]

Here what are i my fstab:

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#Entry for /dev/sda2 :
UUID=ad8fab1b-b68e-4074-94f9-1d6641de9c9c	/	ext4	defaults	1	1
#Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=65F7-0856	/boot/efi	vfat	defaults,noatime,dmask=0002,fmask=0113	0	0
#Entry for /dev/sdc1 :
UUID=bfd5b9cc-e7aa-47ef-9fa1-ddd02b6ee2a1	/disk3	ext4	defaults,relatime	0	0
#Entry for /dev/sda3 :
UUID=0ed9e5ad-3519-405a-9dc4-a7491583a2a3	swap	swap	defaults	0	0
dev/sdc1	/disk3     ext4	defaults	1	2

The last line in the /etc/fstab you posted is probaly wrong, so check again
This line for /disk3

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#Entry for /dev/sdc1 :
UUID=bfd5b9cc-e7aa-47ef-9fa1-ddd02b6ee2a1	/disk3	ext4	defaults,relatime	0	0

here with some changes to show up under devices as "disk3":

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#Entry for /dev/sdc1 :
UUID=bfd5b9cc-e7aa-47ef-9fa1-ddd02b6ee2a1   /disk3   ext4   defaults,relatime,nofail,x-gvfs-show,x-gvfs-name=disk3   0  2

In addtition I added "nofail" to avoid a boot-hanger in case you removed the hdd-device,
and also added the files-system check flag "2" to have reguarly file system checks when mounting.
You can add other icons for the external hdd as mentioned in the post above e.g.

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#Entry for /dev/sdc1 :
UUID=bfd5b9cc-e7aa-47ef-9fa1-ddd02b6ee2a1   /disk3   ext4   defaults,relatime,nofail,x-gvfs-show,x-gvfs-name=disk3,x-gvfs-icon=drive-harddisk-usb-symbolic,x-gvfs-symbolic-icon=drive-harddisk-usb-symbolic   0  2