How can I mount software raid drive mdX with fstab

Question

I have raid5 configure with gpt partition to allow working with drive larger the 1.6 TB

Ubuntu version is 12.04 and the md drive is 5TB.

with:

mount -t ext3 /dev/md129 /images  

mount works fine. But when I tried to put the same configuration to /etc/fstab:

/dev/md129     /images     ext3     default   0   0

I get this error at boot:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option ....

What I'm doing wrong or what I need to do to make it work?

Answer 1

add this line to your fstab

/dev/md129 /images ext3 noatime,rw 0 0

Answer 2

Did u put your UUID in fstab? U can find your UUID when typing blkid in terminal

U see something like this:

/dev/sdb1: LABEL="HOME" UUID="6b9fc471-2752-455a-b402-fff7cea00145

Copy UUID to fstab:

UUID=6b9fc471-2752-455a-b402-fff7cea00145   /home    ext4          defaults       0       2 

Answer 3

You have "default" when it should be "defaults". You had a misspelling.