As title says I have a direct attached storage attached to a Linux machine (that used to be windows). Said raid system started as being called ./Raid and is now after 2 restarts of of the lap top it is now ./Raid2. Is there a way to make it not change names every time I do a restart. I did some looking online but don’t want to do something that will ruin the content that is on those drives.
Thanks
Just mount it to a fixed location in
/etc/fstab
, but use a mount option likenofail
ornobootwait
(quick search showed that this is the option for ubuntu users), so your machine still boots when the drive is not connectedis
/fstab
a folder? Or do you mean change that actual file?man fstab
/etc/fstab
is a file that controls auto mount points at boot. You can read about it with the commandman fstab
, or search up how to add something to it in a search engine. There are plenty of resources to help you online with creating a mount in the fstab.But be careful, you can pretty easily break stuff by messing up fstab
Easily? Just don’t go deleting things and you’re probably fine.
Thank you I believe I have it resolved
It’s recommended to map the mount point to the drive’s GUID. That way if you change your hardware around you can be sure the drive will still mount.
I guess this is a /etc/udev/ thing?
What’s the end goal here? You should be able to use fstab to mount the drive to a particular folder on every boot. That should allow you to access the mounted folder consistently.