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Hello,

I added a second VHD disk to my Linux Ubuntu guest OS. For the most part, it works great. I'm a Linux novice in many areas yet, so it's a bit clumsy to get it connected some times, but it works.

I am noticing when the VM starts that it's not ready to mount. Is there a way to prioritize that when the OS initializes? Because I've got some continuous integration services running that are configured to hit that volume which can run non-interactive.

Thank you.

Regards,

Michael Powell

Add the mount to the /etc/fstab and it will be available at boot.

Pretty sure I did, or my fstab entry isn't quite right. I somewhat modeled the last line after the first one (somewhat).

I can mount it afterwards, after logging in. But I want it available prior to user-login.

<fstab>
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=0b033d77-5505-4d53-994b-eeac13ea99c9 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=55b6a199-1690-4559-864e-d26b1cdc165e none swap sw 0 0
# second disk
UUID=cf5ff5d1-0cfa-4cb0-9210-fcab78183d03 /sdb ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
</fstab>

If you use the blkid you should not need the /sdb (which is wrong in any case as it would be /dev/sdb)

I don't use the blkid on my extra drives (just old fashioned I guess)

First drive is data and second is for backup

Thank ye. I'm acclimating to the conventions for directories as you can tell. That helps though. And probably saves some pain later admin-wise.