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I am running Ubuntu precise and have the following external hard disk:

$ sudo blkid | grep Elements
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="Elements" UUID="e6daad35-1f57-4281-8683-a03c20cfc5a3" TYPE="ext4"

My etc/fstab has this line at the end:

$ sudo cat /etc/fstab | tail -1
UUID=e6daad35-1f57-4281-8683-a03c20cfc5a3 /media/Elements ext4 defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=007 0 2

Yet, when the system boots I get a message "an error occurred while mounting /media/Elements". Once I am in, a simple mount from the console succeeds:

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/Elements/

What's wrong with my setup that doesn't allow Ubuntu to mount the external drive automatically at boot time?

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I think that for ext4 filesystems the uid and gid options are not allowed.

I tried to mount such a type of filesystem from command line giving -o uid=1000 and it gave me an error, and working without.

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  • removing the uid and gid options from /etc/fstab did the trick.
    – Marcus Junius Brutus
    Nov 4, 2012 at 18:14

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