What is the reason for the nofail option in /etc/fstab? Any reason you can't format the drive as ext4? I've seen articles claiming serious performance benefits for USB drives as ext4 instead of ntfs.
I'm doing similar on a Raspberry Pi2 with Jessie and have had no such issues, but I have a weird one in that the system immediately crashes back to "emergency" mode if I try to run it headless (no mouse/keyboard). Is the USB drive powered separately or from the USB bus? It could be a power glitch issue as I don't think the Beaglebones can supply a lot of USB power. On Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 1:46:57 AM UTC-5, Peter Hendricks wrote: > > I recently bought a BBG for use as a tiny NAS and print server. I > installed a Debian Jessie image (for BBB) and ran updates. All X stuff was > removed to save space and Samba installed. > > When I plug in the external USB disk it is recognised and /dev/sda1 > appears. I added this to /etc/fstab: > > UUID=F250C93950C904F7 /mnt/usbdrive ntfs-3g exec,noatime,nofail > 0 0 > > This seems to work, the drive is mounted at boot time: > > /dev/sda1 on /mnt/usbdrive type fuseblk > (rw,noatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096) > > However, after a random period of time and without touching the USB bus, > the drive suddenly switches to /dev/sdb1. This is while the drive is online > and an IP camera is continuously recording to it. Needless to say, it all > comes to a sudden halt, as /dev/sda1 disappears. > > This must be something I am doing wrong. I have some experience running > Linux systems as servers, but never had to deal with USB. I thought that > perhaps the drive going to sleep when idle was a problem, so I hooked it up > to my laptop and turned the sleep function off. It didn't help. > > Thanks for any light you may be able to shed on my problem. > > Kind regards, > Peter. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/937d956f-403f-42f9-8013-6f4e99b4c2a1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
