Not sure if this is the right place this seems like a general question but didn’t see anywhere that would fit. I have a extra drive I wanted to use as general storage but when trying to add it to /etc/fstab it won’t boot and I get the error below when testing using sudo mount -a. The drive will mou…

Hello @jajao555 :wink: [image] jajao555: mount: /run/media/andy/linux-data: mount point does not exist. No wonder. /run/media is there for applications which do temporary auto mounts like file managers. They create create folder automatically. The preferred place is /media/linux-data. Keep …

Issue with fstab data drive mounting

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Aragorn 7 January 2022 02:49 2

There’s your problem. The /run hierarchy only exists in virtual memory, and the mountpoint is only created when the drive is mounted from within a file manager. You need to set up a permanent mountpoint ─ see this tutorial…

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