Auto mount external USB drive in Proxmox 6.2

[Craig Tosi]

I recently did an inplace upgrade from PVE 5.4 to 6.2. Prior to the upgrade I had external USB drives auto-mounting via an entry in /etc/fstab along these lines:-

/dev/sdc1 /mnt/rdx auto defaults,noatime,auto,nofail 0 2

Since the upgrade the drives no longer auto-mount. In researching this I've come across a variety of methods to achieve the end goal but much of the information is some years old & not applicable to Proxmox VE 6/Debian 10. So my question is really about what is the most appropriate method to auto mount drives that will survive future updates & version upgrades etc?

 

[Dark26]

try to mount the partition with uuid instead of /dev/sdxx

use blkid to view the uuid

blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="5741fbc8-dccd-4aa3-88ce-f7b5717df02b" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="0da1f450-01"

and in fstab

UUID=5741fbc8-dccd-4aa3-88ce-f7b5717df02b /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1

 

[Craig Tosi]

Thanks for the response. Just to clarify, when I say auto-mount I'm talking about automatically mounting on USB connection of the drive, not at boot time.

I can mount the drive using either it's UUID or /dev/sdxn designation, but neither of the below entries in /etc/fstab mounts the drive on USB connection:-

/dev/sdc1 /mnt/rdx auto defaults,noatime,auto,nofail 0 2

UUID=2992a6b2-d93c-4ffe-8c1f-f152df4c64c4 /mnt/rdx    ext4    defaults,noatime,auto,nofail 0 2