I would like to automount my external HDD (NTFS volume) on boot by using its UUID.
However it is only working by specifying the partition I would like to mount (sdb2) .
both fstab configs
config mount ---> auto mount on boot NOT working
option uuid 'B2AC6857AC6817DD'
option enabled '1'
option target '/mnt/ext_hdd'
option fstype 'ntfs'
option options 'rw,noatime,async,big_writes'
config mount ---> auto mount on boot working
option enabled '1'
option target '/mnt/ext_hdd'
option fstype 'ntfs'
option options 'rw,noatime,async,big_writes'
option device '/dev/sdb2'
when i try to manually mount it by uuid, i get this
root@OPENWRT-ROUTER:~# mount -t ntfs-3g UUID="B2AC6857AC6817DD" /mnt/ext_hdd -o rw,noatime,async,big_writes
ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume 'UUID=B2AC6857AC6817DD': No such file or directory
On the Mount Options page at Mount Points it also shows "UUID: B2AC6857AC6817DD ( not present )"
However it also won't let me mount it by using the partuuid.
root@OPENWRT-ROUTER:~# mount -t ntfs-3g PARTUUID="5af5aec1-d53d-4f5b-8e06-8f6cb599a8a7" /mnt/ext_hdd -o rw,noatime,async
,big_writes
ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume 'PARTUUID=5af5aec1-d53d-4f5b-8e06-8f6cb599a8a7': No such file or directory
The disk won't be changing much. But since there is the possibility to mount using the devices uuid, I would like to do so.
It's a known issue, as you saw in the referenced post and the reported bug. Though, it set to a low priority as it's not a security threat, doesn't affect functionality much, and is only about NTFS disks.