how to mount USB drive on system startup

Odhiambo Washington odhiambo at gmail.com
Tue Jul 8 08:25:49 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Zbigniew Szalbot
<z.szalbot at lc-words.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to make sure my USB hard drive will be available when system has
> finished booting. So:
> $ grep usbd /etc/rc.conf
> usbd_enable="YES"
>
> and
> $ grep backup /etc/fstab
> /dev/ad3s1d     /backup ufs     rw      2       2
>
> But when I restart the system (FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1), it complains that it
> cannot mount /backup.
>
> mount: /backup: No such file or directory
> Mounting /etc/fstab filesystem failed. Startup aborted.
>
> I am sure there is something very simple that I need to do, so I'll
> appreciate your suggestions! Thanks!

mkdir /backup



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