mount_usb_drive_on_boot
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Mount USB Drive on Boot
Having created a partition, formatted it and mounted it, the mounting temporary and will be lost upon reboot. To mount it at boot we can do the following:
First we need to work out the disk we wish to mount:
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid (on my system that is the SD card we booted from and a single USB Hard Disk)
total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jul 28 20:33 0403-0201 -> ../../mmcblk0p1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jul 28 20:33 1495-189B -> ../../mmcblk0p6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jul 28 20:33 200C-EA5B -> ../../mmcblk0p8 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jul 28 20:33 26d10fa3-fe0a-4044-b24a-9b85c2079122 -> ../../mmcblk0p9 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 28 20:33 6af40af7-759f-4ee5-afea-882e9f58f17e -> ../../sda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jul 28 20:32 705f6e2b-fac6-4f33-8611-d57a9c9f04e1 -> ../../mmcblk0p5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jul 28 20:33 759bca6b-5766-4941-b830-cdbfcd861107 -> ../../mmcblk0p7 The assignment ending in /sda1 is what I am interested in.
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