This was plaguing me too until I found the above post. For me, the steps to reproduce are: 1) Enter the drive to be mounted in /etc/fstab -- something like: UUID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX /mnt/backup ext3 defaults,relatime 0 0 2) sudo mount -a -- which would succeed 3) sudo reboot 4) Login 5) mount
At this point, I expected to see the drive properly mounted like: /dev/sdc1 on /mnt/backup type ext3 (rw,relatime) However, it was not mounted. In the dmesg log - I would see where the other drives got mounted, and that it recognized the usb drive as sdc. The crazy thing, is that if I did a shutdown -P 0 and powered off completely, all drives would mount properly on power up from a cold start. As a workaround, I too have added the "sleep 10" line to the /usr/share /initramfs-tools/init file and then sudo /usr/sbin/update-initramfs -uk all to rebuild the image. FYI - this is on 9.04 -- External USB Hard Drive fails to mount on boot from fstab https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367782 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs