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Posted: **Fri May 26, 2017 10:26 am**

Hi All,

I have my pi home server setup, but seem to be having considerable problems getting it to automount at boot.

I have changed the /etc/fstab file as so:

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proc            /proc           proc    defaults          0       0
PARTUUID=29469a15-01  /boot           vfat    defaults          0       2
PARTUUID=29469a15-02  /               ext4    defaults,noatime  0       1
/dev/sda1/      /Media/pHDD_Other       ntfs-3g defaults,nofail 0       0
# a swapfile is not a swap partition, no line here
#   use  dphys-swapfile swap[on|off]  for that

if I try to mount the device manually:

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mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /media/pHDD_Other

it works until I reboot the Pi.

Basically, its running Samba which when the drive is mounted, I can connect to the Pi from another device and can access it as a file server. Unfortunately though, it needs that manual intervention after boot to get it to work.

Can anyone advise the potential reason for this?

Posted: **Fri May 26, 2017 10:53 am**

is the usb-hdd truly formatted with ntfs ??
or is it ext4 ??

you have proc and sda1 both on "0" (last char on the line)
not sure if that's really a problem

Posted: **Fri May 26, 2017 11:05 am**

/proc should be 0 0
/dev/sda1 should be 0 1 possibly with an auto in it also ...

Posted: **Tue May 30, 2017 6:09 pm**

What's the output of

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sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/pHDD_Other

with the drive unmounted and

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mount | grep sda1

after mounting manually as above?

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