[yocto] fstab entry not mounting at boot-up

Mike Looijmans mike.looijmans at topic.nl
Thu Jan 11 01:49:09 PST 2018


On 05-01-18 20:43, Edward Wingate wrote:
> My system has a USB-SSD drive and I added this to my fstab:
> /dev/sda1  /mnt/drive    auto   defaults,nonempty  0 0
> 
> But it doesn't get mounted on start-up.  I can use "mount -a" after
> start-up and it mounts successfully.
> 
> Everything else in fstab gets mounted on boot.  Does anyone know why
> my new entry doesn't?

Wild guess: "/mnt/drive" does not exist yet when the fstab is processed during 
startup. That will cause mount to fail.


Kind regards,

Mike Looijmans
System Expert

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