I have a partition mounted with mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /foo.
Each time I reboot, I need to remount. How can I keep this mounted after every reboot?
You need to make an entry in /etc/fstab for the mount, something like:
/dev/sda3 /foo ext3 defaults 1 1
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answered Aug 17 '11 at 15:25
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1You may want to use
nofailflag so that you'll able to normally boot your system when/dev/sda3is not able to mount for some reason. – styrofoam fly Oct 12 '18 at 14:29
Sometimes, one may face critical issues due to /etc/fstab entries. So, the alternative is crontab.
Just add below entry in root's crontab.
$ sudo crontab -e
@reboot mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /foo
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4Are you really suggesting to use an ugly hack instead of the proper way of doing it, which has been in use for decades and never actually caused those "critical issues" to anyone?!? – Massimo Jul 3 '13 at 7:29
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2I faced this situation while working on cloud machine on AWS. There was some problem while mounting using /etc/fstab, and the system was halting boot process. So, the system became useless as it was remote. So, i prefer safe boot (without specifying an entry in fstab) and then issue mount in crontab. – Parvinder Singh Oct 25 '13 at 13:22
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@Massimo actually "critical issues" do exist. Here's what a Google engineer says about mounting a certain cloud storage (like Amazon S3) FUSE filesystem via fstab at boot: "let me urge you to not do this. Requests to GCS are not nearly as reliable as local disk, and you're likely to find yourself with a system that hangs on boot if anything goes wrong" ( here ) – KajMagnus Jul 23 '16 at 14:32
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Not sure what to do instead though, but crontab and
@rebootmakes sense to me. Perhaps in combination with a fstabnoautorow, ormountdirectly in the crontab. — Anyway, upvoted from -3 to -2, because this answer is actually useful, in some rare cases. (And edit suggestoin: "sometimes" --> "in rare cases" :- ) ) – KajMagnus Jul 23 '16 at 14:33 -
This is what I did in my case:
@reboot echo '/opt/ed/mount-google-cloud-storage-backups-bucket.sh >> /opt/ed/cron.log 2>&1' | at now + 3 minutes, works OK perhaps not for everyone, but for my use case. – KajMagnus Jul 23 '16 at 15:29
For OpenSuse, coming from Novell Automatically mount a windows share at boot time with Linux
//winserver/share /mnt/winshare cifs gid=users,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775,auto,username=john,password=johnpass 0 0
Please add single quotes if the folder names contains spaces:
'//winserver/share with spaces' '/mnt/winshare with spaces' cifs gid=users,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775,auto,username=john,password=johnpass 0 0
Check the end of the article if you don't want to put passwords in fstab.
