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Auteur: dng@d404.nl
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab
On 12-06-2020 17:01, J. Fahrner via Dng wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm running Devuan Beowulf on an Odroid C2 mini computer. Since it's
> internal flash disk is limited, I run it with an external usb drive
> attached.
> When this disk is active in /etc/fstab the boot process hangs forever.
> I can ping it, so networking is started, but I cannot login, because
> sshd is not running. Since this is a headless system, I cannot see
> boot messages to find out where it hangs. I cannot attach a monitor
> because I have no suitable cable.
>
> Any ideas how to debug this problem?
>
> This is the fstab entry:
>
> LABEL=Elements /hdd ext4 defaults  0 2
>
> Booting with this entry commented out works fine, and I can mount the
> disk as normal after boot. But this way many daemons are missing its
> data and have to be restarted after mount.
>
> Jochen



Because with usb chances are that you have more than one labeled with
the same name I mount a (partition on a) usb drive by his UUID.

Grtz.

Nick