pi-desktop ssd mounting

Question

I have a pi3 in a pi-desktop box, with a samsung ssd.

Everything works as far as the box itself, and partitioning the ssd using GParted.

I followed instructions to mount the ssd using:

> sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/ssd/ssd

with /media/ssd/ssd directory created earlier and permissions set per instructions

However the mounting location does not persist through a power cycling.

That is, if I power down, then back up, the ssd is mounted to the default location of /media/pi

How can I get the ssd to always be mounted to /media/ssd/ssd through a power cycling?

rew · Answer

Persistant mount points are created with a file called "fstab". this is located in /etc .

The file has columns of <device> <mountpoint> <fs type> <options> <dump> <pass>

The last two are "oldfashioned". I don't think they are actively used by the system anymore.

So you'd add:

/dev/sda1 /media/ssd/ssd ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1

The file on my UbuntuPC has some "help" on what needs to be in the file, inside the file itself. On my pi the file just has a few default entries: Leave those alone and add the line you want to add.