Mount a USB: Raspberry Pi

mount.txt

Re: How do you mount a USB Drive?
Quote
Fri Mar 22, 2013 10:55 pm
	
If you

sudo nano /etc/fstab

then add the line to the end

/dev/sda2 /mnt/usb vfat defaults 0 2

it should mount at boot, assuming the sda2 does not change, which it can if other drives exist at boot up.

A better option is to use uuid instead of /dev/
the uuid can be found using the following

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/

or gparted has the same info

then your fstab line would start
UUID=long_hex_number_from_previous_command /mnt/usb vfat defaults 0 2

Using that method means it doesn't matter whether your drive comes up as sda1 or sdb2 or whatever if another drive is in when the Pi is booted.

I've always used uuid on all of my computers.

Stu