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Whenever I boot up ubuntu asks me for a specific drive media/nuc/500GB. How can I disable this drive?

Contents of etc/fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>

#Entry for /dev/sda2 :
UUID=239eef87-dd6d-4364-99c7-6bb5a07cc755   /   ext4    errors=remount-ro   0   1
#Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=5481-19AC  /boot/efi   vfat    defaults    0   1
#Entry for /dev/sdb1 :
UUID=65E3E80C574F48DA   /media/nuc/500GB    ntfs-3g defaults,nosuid,nodev,locale=de_CH.UTF-8    0   0
#Entry for /dev/sda3 :
UUID=7090edf4-d149-42e9-b92c-4822f2d2130c   none    swap    sw  0   0
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Sounds like you had an external drive of some sort attached and somehow told it to be permanently mounted. You need to find the reference in /etc/fstab and either delete it or, preferably, comment it out.

Post the contents of the file on here if you are unsure...

From the terminal, type the following commands:
cd /etc
sudo cp fstab fstab.150209
sudo gedit fstab

Now, in front of the line which starts UUID=65E3E80C574F48DA /media/nuc/500GB ... type the # character. It should now look like:

#UUID=65E3E80C574F48DA /media/nuc/500GB ...

Save the file and reboot. if there are any problems you still have the original fstab in fstab.150209. Once you are happy that all is well you can use sudo gedit /etc/fstab/ and delete the line you have just commented out. Or, if it feels safer, leave it be...

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  • Hi. I only have a directory fstab.d, which seems empty. – empedokles Feb 5 '15 at 16:02
  • can you please open a terminal and type the following command: ls -l /etc/fs* – Hippy Steve Feb 6 '15 at 20:50
  • It says -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 479 Jan 25 19:47 /etc/fstab -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 709 Jan 25 19:46 /etc/fstab-ntfs-config-save /etc/fstab.d: insgesamt 0 What do I have to do next? – empedokles Feb 7 '15 at 21:02
  • OK, the first line shows that the fstab file exists. Next step is to open the file in an editor and take a look. Initially we don't want to edit the file so please now type the following command: gedit /etc/fstab then copy the contents of the file & post them on here. – Hippy Steve Feb 8 '15 at 11:02
  • Thank you. I've posted the content in my original post above. – empedokles Feb 9 '15 at 11:16

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