identify_and_mount_a_drive
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| sudo nano /etc/fstab | sudo nano /etc/fstab | ||
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| - | Add the line in red to the bottom, replace XXXX-XXXX with your UUID and exfat with your type if it is different (e.g. ntfs, vfat, ext4). You may or may not need the quotation marks wrapped around the UID, you do not need quotation marks wrapped around the file system type (ext4, vfat, NTFS etc). | + | Add the line in red to the bottom, replace XXXX-XXXX with your UUID and exfat with your type if it is |
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| - | The umask 0002 sets 775 permissions so the pi user and group can read, write and execute files on the external USB drive. To completely eliminate permission issues you can set the umask to 0000 which equals 777 permissions so anybody can read, write and execute. Note that 777 permissions are considered a security risk. | + | The umask 0002 sets 775 permissions so the pi user and group can read, write and execute files |
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| If you have issues here then try replacing uid=pi, | If you have issues here then try replacing uid=pi, | ||
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| sudo mount -a | sudo mount -a | ||
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| - | If you didn’t get errors reboot, otherwise try the suggestions above to get it working then mount -a again until it succeeds | + | |
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| - | sudo reboot | + | |
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