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--- mount_usb_drive_on_boot [2016/07/28 20:47] – 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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     Here we can see the uid for pi is 1000 (I am assuming you are using the pi account)
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-    Mount the USB Drive and then check if it is accessible at /media/NEWDRIVE
+    Lets create a mount point and call it NewDisk
-    sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=007 /dev/sda1 /media/NASDRIVE
+    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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