Re: [beagleboard] Re: Debian Jessie USB drive problem

On 9 June 2016 at 01:47, Wally Bkg wrote: > > What is the reason for the nofail option in /etc/fstab? Without it the boot process hangs if the drive is not plugged in. > Any reason you can't format the drive as ext4? I would have to buy another drive to backup the data

[beagleboard] Debian Jessie USB drive problem

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: