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Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting

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On Tuesday, 29 August 2017 11:46:34 CEST James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> > LABEL=ExternalHD /media/ExternalHD auto defaults,noatime,auto,nofail 0 2
> > LABEL=ExternalHD /media/ExternalHD auto
> > defaults,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.device-timeout=5,noatime,noauto 0
> > 2
> One odd thing, with those two lines in fstab, and a manually-inserted 
> mount point of "ExternalHD" in /media, I get this message (I had to 
> restart the box about 3 or 4 times in order to write it down verbatim) 
> during the IPL process, before the screen blanks and (eventually) the 
> 
> Gnome sign-on screen comes up:
> > Failed to create mount unit file /run/systemd/generator/
> > media-ExternalHD.mount as it already exists. Duplicate entry in
> > /etc/fstab?

Depending on the bahavior you want, you should choose one of the 2 lines, but 
not both. I believe the latter triggers the "Duplicate entry" warning .

So if you want your device to be mounted when inserted, choose the line with 
defaults,noatime,auto,nofail

If you want the device mounted when the mounted directory is accessed, choose 
the line with x-systemd.automount

HTH

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USB external hard drive -- mounting "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2017-08-28 23:30 +0200
  Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-08-29 01:10 +0200
    Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2017-08-29 02:20 +0200
      Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-08-29 03:40 +0200
        Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Frank <zuiderduin@gmx.com> - 2017-08-29 13:00 +0200
          Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2017-08-29 20:10 +0200
            Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Frank <zuiderduin@gmx.com> - 2017-08-29 21:40 +0200
    Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-29 04:40 +0200
  Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Dominique Dumont <dod38fr@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 13:30 +0200
    Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2017-08-29 20:50 +0200
      Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Dominique Dumont <dod38fr@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 21:10 +0200
        Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2017-08-29 21:20 +0200
        Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2017-08-30 00:00 +0200
    Re: USB external hard drive -- mounting Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-09-03 04:00 +0200

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