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--- mount_usb_drive_on_boot [2016/07/28 20:38] – created walkeradmin
+++ mount_usb_drive_on_boot [2017/02/01 16:15] (current) – walkeradmin
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-Having created a partition, formatted it and mounted it, the mounting temporary and will be lost upon reboot. To mount it at boot we can do the following:
+Having created a partition, formatted it and mounted it, the mounting is temporary and will be lost upon reboot. To mount it at boot we can do the following:
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     (on my system that is the SD card we booted from and a single USB Hard Disk)
     total 0
     lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jul 28 20:33 0403-0201 -> ../../mmcblk0p1
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     The assignment ending in /sda1 is what I am interested in.
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+    Note Down the value of the drive you wish to mount
+af40af7-759f-4ee5-afea-882e9f58f17e (in this example)
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+    Get the uid, gid for pi user and group using:
+    id
+    uid=1000(pi) gid=1000(pi) groups=1000(pi),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),27(sudo),29(audio),44(video),46(plugdev),60(games),100(users),101(input),108(netdev),997(gpio),998(i2c),999(spi)
+    Here we can see the uid for pi is 1000 (I am assuming you are using the pi account)
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+    Lets create a mount point and call it NewDisk
+    sudo mkdir /mydisk    <-- This creates a mount point (a folder) to mount our disk, the folder is called mydisk
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+    To Mount the Disk
+    sudo mount /dev/sda1 /NewDisk    <--- bear in mind that your disk might not be sda1
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