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I'm trying to use my Ubuntu computer as a file/media server, and I have four removable HDDs plugged in. After a fresh boot, two of them mount, or appear in fdisk or /dev/sd*, but they do appear in lsusb. After I unplug them and plug them back in, they appear and mount fine. I have usb_storage in /etc/modules, which was suggested somewhere, but it didn't help

My fstab:

UUID=4C10E94110E9329E /media/2TB auto noauto,nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
UUID=C6026AF6026AEABF /media/3TB2 auto noauto,nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
UUID=08A4462AA4461A98 /media/2TB2 auto noauto,nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
UUID=18A2F5C4A2F5A682 /media/3TB fuseblk noauto,nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

the 08... and 18... don't mount. (I switched 3TB to fuseblk because manually mounting it with auto complained that I didn't specify a filesystem)

trying to mount them after boot with

mount /media/3TB -v

gives no output

lsblk:

NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0   350M  0 part 
├─sda2   8:2    0 878.6G  0 part 
├─sda3   8:3    0     1K  0 part 
├─sda5   8:5    0  42.7G  0 part /
└─sda6   8:6    0    10G  0 part [SWAP]
sdb      8:16   0 931.5G  0 disk 
└─sdb1   8:17   0 931.5G  0 part 
sdc      8:32   0   1.8T  0 disk 
└─sdc1   8:33   0   1.8T  0 part /media/2TB
sdd      8:48   0   2.7T  0 disk 
└─sdd1   8:49   0   2.7T  0 part /media/Videos3TB
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  • Are the drives "permanently" assigned to your Ubunutu box, or do you move them about between systems? If they stay with your Ubuntu system, adding entries for them in your fstab file to auto-mount them might fix the problem. Also, does this happen with all USB devices or just the drives?
    – douggro
    Mar 9, 2014 at 17:02
  • they are. I added all four to my fstab, and now two work, and two error on boot, asking me if I want to wait for them to become available or skip them. The two that work and the two that didn't have the same USB IDs: Seagate RSS LLC FreeAgent GoFlex Desk USB 3.0 and Seagate RSS LLC FreeAgent GoFlex Desk respectively. my usb keyboard works fine, and a flash drive I plugged in before booting showed up fine.
    – zacaj
    Mar 9, 2014 at 20:39
  • (although all four are USB 3.0 drives?)
    – zacaj
    Mar 9, 2014 at 20:47
  • All are connected on USB 3.0 ports or through a USB 3.0 hub? And what mount point did you set in fstab? Typical is to mount them in /media/
    – douggro
    Mar 9, 2014 at 20:53
  • And can you edit your question with the fstab entries?
    – douggro
    Mar 9, 2014 at 21:04

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