mount external HDD to mnt instead of media

[vertikall]

hi,

As the title says I want to mount my external NTFS drive to mnt instead of being automatically mounted to media at boot.
I'm currently having to run

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sudo umount /dev/sda1
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/HDD

every time I reboot and it's kind of becoming a pain to do this every time.

[Overload86]

Have you had a look at fstab?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MoveMountpointHowto

Or autofs?

https://access.redhat.com/documentation ... utofs.html

I'm not sure which one Raspbian uses, but I would guess fstab.

Edit: https://www.modmypi.com/blog/how-to-mou ... pi-raspian

This should help.

[Martin Frezman]

Both of which are old (as in 80's, 90's vintage) and bad advice.

fstab is bad because it can cause the booting process to hang if the drive is not present (which is going to be most of the time).

autofs (in its various forms and guises) is precisely what we're trying to get away from.

I agree with OP that this a good goal to pursue, but I am curious as to his exact reason for wanting to do it. The operative question is: Why isn't letting it mount automatically desirable behavior in OP's use case?

[Overload86]

Haha the late 90s were actually the last time I was using a linux system on my PC. xD

Just started tinkering with a Raspberry Pi a few days ago and googled his problem.

I am curious however, what is responsible for mounting all the right partitions and automounting external drives now if not fstab?
Knowing linux I would bet a small fortune, that you are able to change this default behaviour somewhere xD

[SurferTim]

fstab will not cause a hang if the drive is not present. Use the nofail parameter.

[Martin Frezman]

fstab will not cause a hang if the drive is not present, provided you happen to know about and know how to use the nofail parameter.

Fixed it for ya.

The point is that most newusers won't know about it (and quite a few oldusers, such as YHN) - and will, naturally, observe that using fstab causes their systems to hang.

[SurferTim]

Let me fix it for ya now that I am not on my iPhone. For my ntfs drive.

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/dev/sda1 /media/pi ntfs-3g auto,nofail,rw,default 0 0

or this

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UUID=1D1798506089E3C4  /media/pi ntfs-3g auto,nofail,rw,default 0 0

[Martin Frezman]

Yes, you can kludge around the problems, but it is still a bad idea to do this in fstab. Trust me, I've been there, I know.

[rpdom]

Yes, you can kludge around the problems, but it is still a bad idea to do this in fstab. Trust me, I've been there, I know.

Why? It works. It has worked for years. Trust me. I've been there yada yada blah.

[vertikall]

I tried fstab with the nofail parameter and adding rootdelay=10 to /boot/cmdline.txt since the Pi seems to boot faster than it could recognize the drive.

the fstab line I added:

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UUID=<2EA265F5A265C247> /media/HDD ntfs nofail,rw,auto,users,exec,nls=utf8,umask=003,gid=46,uid=1000    0   0

will try to make it into something like this as posted above and post the result..

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UUID=1D1798506089E3C4  /media/pi ntfs-3g auto,nofail,rw,default 0 0

edit: ( just like a homer simpson d'oh moment I did realize that i left in < > in my previous attempt) just did

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UUID=2EA265F5A265C247  /mnt/HDD ntfs-3g auto,nofail,rw,default 0 0

still no dice. still mounts to /media/pi

if it helps I'm using this pi as a p2p seedbox using transmission.

[Ernst]

If /mnt/HDD exists then this should work:

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UUID=2EA265F5A265C247  /mnt/HDD ntfs nofail,defaults 0 0

[vertikall]

If /mnt/HDD exists then this should work:

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UUID=2EA265F5A265C247  /mnt/HDD ntfs nofail,defaults 0 0

thanks this worked, also made my root delay to 15 - seems like my external drive is a little bit slow on the get-go.