Here’s the entry in the fstab file for mounting my hard drive. I have bolded the name of the hard drive (that’s what it shows up as on the dock when it isn’t mounted):

UUID=D4C0A66EC0A65710 /media/lucky/New Volume ntfs rw,auto,users,exec,nls=utf8,umask=003,gid=46,uid=1000    0   0

After making that entry in fstab, I execute the, systemctl daemon-reload, command, and then mount -a, afterwards which gives me this error.

  • gregorum@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    sometimes there are those times when you’ve been at it for 6-8 hours straight with no break, and you keep staring at that one line in your config, trying so hard to see this mistake. is it a comma out of place? did i missplell something? no? and you’re staring at it so long that you just don’t see the glaringly obvious:

    ***New Volume***
    

    it’s that one remnant that you probably copy/pasted from a tutorial page and you’re too brain-fried to consider that it’s a part of the line you should have changed, so you’re not looking at it, but there it is. but, hey, that’s why forums like this exist: to get a fresh pair of eyes on the problem.

    we’ve all been there.

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      10 months ago

      There were no asterisks in the fstab file, I just placed them here to emphasize the name of the hdd.

      Btw I got Debian to automount the hdd (thanks to @shortdorkyasian) by adding this entry to the fstab file:

      UUID=D4C0A66EC0A65710 /media/lucky/New\040Volume/ ntfs rw,auto,users,exec,nls=utf8,umask=003,gid=46,uid=1000 0 0

      Using \040 instead of a space or quotes (single or double) made it work.

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        10 months ago

        lmao, ok i see.

        in any case, i’m very glad that you got your drive mounted!