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--- auto_mount_external_drive_at_startup_ubuntu_server_22_04 [2023/07/19 19:23] – wikiadmin
+++ auto_mount_external_drive_at_startup_ubuntu_server_22_04 [2023/07/19 19:50] (current) – wikiadmin
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 ====== Auto Mount External Drive at Startup in Ubuntu Server 22.04 ======
+**I AM NOT TAKING ANY CHANCES OF MOUNTING ANYTHING. THERE IS A 2TB HARDWARE RAID-1 MIRROR THAT IS MOUNTED, AND I DON'T WANT THE 4TB USB SSD DRIVE TO CONFLICT WITH THAT WHEN THE SYSTEM REBOOTS. IT APPEARS THAT UBUNTU IS SWITCHING THE MOUNTS OF THE /SDA AND THE /SDB AFTER A REBOOT.**
+However, I will keep the documentation below until such time as I figure out how to do this without any conflicts, and amend the entire process accordingly.
 See: [[https://developerinsider.co/auto-mount-drive-in-ubuntu-server-22-04-at-startup/]]
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 It does not specify that this USB SSD Drive is exFat, but I know it to exFat by connecting it to a Windows system and looking at its format.
-I believe that we need to mount /dev/sda2 which is the 4TB external USB SSD drive
+I believe that we need to mount /dev/sda2 which is the 4TB (3.8TB) external USB SSD drive.  And it appears that the Disk Identifier is:
+<code>
+AB3F7F29-78F9-46D2-90C7-B2FC88C5E922
+</code>
+**BEWARE THERE ARE MIXED READINGS NOW!
+LOOK AT THIS BELOW AND COMPARE
+**
+<code>
+lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,UUID,MOUNTPOINTS
+</code>
+Results:
+<code>
+NAME                      FSTYPE      UUID                                   MOUNTPOINTS
+loop0                     squashfs                                           /snap/lxd/24322
+loop1                     squashfs                                           /snap/snapd/19457
+loop2                     squashfs                                           /snap/snapd/19361
+loop3                     squashfs                                           /snap/core20/1950
+loop4                     squashfs                                           /snap/core20/1974
+sda
+├─sda1
+└─sda2
+sdb
+├─sdb1
+├─sdb2                    ext4        94e62aba-77a5-45db-a9ba-ca358fa589df   /boot
+└─sdb3                    LVM2_member hXjBKC-htj8-a0Zn-El2e-C3Jk-Y24f-e3S0bN
+  └─ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv ext4        0d6b481f-ec40-4951-b6d7-76ba4cde2dfb   /
+sr0
+</code>
+**I AM NOT TAKING ANY CHANCES OF MOUNTING ANYTHING.  THERE IS A 2TB HARDWARE RAID-1 MIRROR THAT IS MOUNTED, AND I DON'T WANT THE 4TB USB SSD DRIVE TO CONFLICT WITH THAT WHEN THE SYSTEM REBOOTS.  IT APPEARS THAT UBUNTU IS SWITCHING THE MOUNTS OF THE /SDA AND THE /SDB AFTER A REBOOT.
+**