Mount usb drive with mount -a fails after f10 upgrade

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Kevin Martin wrote:
> 
> 
> FWIW, after upgrading to F10 I have mount problems of an external USB
> drive as well.  My fstab entry was:
> 
> UUID=fa70e3b0-e364-4e9e-a5fc-c37e2b2e30c9 /media/disk            
> ext3    defaults        1 2
> 
> Every time I would reboot after the upgrade I would get a message saying
> that the disk with that UUID could not be found to be checked and would
> make me drop out to single user mode to try to fsck it.  I finally
> booted from cd and commented out that entry from the fstab on the hd and
> then was able to reboot.  FWIW, I can mount /media/disk from the command
> line just fine after getting logged in so it seems like it's an issue,
> at least in my case, of the USB device maybe not being readied soon
> enough for the system to be able to find the external drive with UUID. 
> Could be your running into the same type of problem.
> 
> Kevin
> 
You could always turn off the auto-check for the drive in /etc/fstab.

UUID=fa70e3b0-e364-4e9e-a5fc-c37e2b2e30c9 /media/disk  ext3 defaults 1 0

Mikkel
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