Nerdonite Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 Hey, because I'm one of those guys that buys a lots of USB flash drives but looses all of the ones with higher capacity, I have at home about 3 1GB ones which I want to play until I have some leftover money to buy a 16/32GB one :D So, I used a powered hub with 2 flash drives and hooked it up to the Pineapple. Both of them are configured for ext4, except that one of them has a partition for swap, and I use this to keep infusions and opkg packages, while the other one has only a ext4 partition. When I hooked both of them up and restarted the Pineapple, both of them were detected, but only /dev/sdaX (the one with swap+files) is automounted because of my fstab. However, if I list all the devices found, I get "/dev/sdb1" as well, and it's the exact size of the ext4 partition from my other drive. But when I try to mount it (manually using "mount") it says something like "not found in fstab". So I did some research and found out that fstab controls which drives can be "mount"-ed. So I created a new line in fstab, this one: config mount option target /external option device /dev/sdb1 option fstype ext4 option options rw,sync option enabled 1 option enabled_fsck 0 and restarted it, and now it doesn't even detect the /dev/sdb1, nor can I mount it manually. But the stick with swap and files works great. It always did since I got my Pineapple. It mounts to /usb with no problems. I thought that the other stick would be corrupted, so I used another one, and the same exact problem occurs. Any thoughts on how to auto-mount multiple flash drives? Thanks a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry99705 Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 (edited) Seems to be working for me. Did you use the UI to change the fstab, or did you manually edit it? Use the UI, if you manually edited it. I just threw a Thermaltake sata to usb drive dock on as /extra and it shows up just fine after a reboot. Okay, now I'm just being silly. Edited April 23, 2013 by barry99705 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerdonite Posted April 24, 2013 Author Share Posted April 24, 2013 Hah weird. I'll have to try it with an external hard disk as well. I will also try to reformat the stick to ext4, and if it doesn't work I'll try ext3. I really need this :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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