Ubuntu server USB mount

Question

I have configured my Raspberry PI 2 with Ubuntu Server 16.04.1, which is working like a charm.

My only issue is that my external HDD is not automatically mounted. I tried using the fstab and UUID, not working. I was reading that on Ubuntu server, you need USBMount. the only thing is that I want that drive to be mounted on /media/NAS

For now, I did a schedule cron job to mount the drive.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks :)

edit:

[   23.834487] audit: type=1400 audit(1455208086.487:9): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="/usr/lib/lxd/lxd-bridge-proxy" pid=887 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   23.842573] audit: type=1400 audit(1455208086.495:10): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="/usr/lib/snapd/snap-confine" pid=888 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   23.842655] audit: type=1400 audit(1455208086.495:11): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="/usr/lib/snapd/snap-confine//mount-namespace-capture-helper" pid=888 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   24.394638] cgroup: new mount options do not match the existing superblock, will be ignored
[   28.213436] EXT4-fs error (device mmcblk0p2): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:758: group 1, block bitmap and bg descriptor inconsistent: 1258 vs 1257 free clusters
[   28.237744] JBD2: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = mmcblk0p2, blocknr = 0). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
[   29.169243] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: hardware isn't capable of remote wakeup
[   29.169478] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   30.828279] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[   30.829360] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xCDE1

DF:

df: /media/NAS: Transport endpoint is not connected
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            448M     0  448M   0% /dev
tmpfs            93M  8.3M   84M   9% /run
/dev/mmcblk0p2  7.0G  3.5G  3.5G  50% /
tmpfs           461M     0  461M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           461M     0  461M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1  128M   56M   72M  44% /boot/firmware
tmpfs            93M     0   93M   0% /run/user/1000

Answer 1

sudo apt-get install usbmount

It creates entries for usb devices in /media, then automounts the USB devices there.

Beware of FAT & NTFS drives, you may need to edit the /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf file for filesystems that aren't supported by default. Everything is commented well, so should be simple to do.

You may also need to sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g for NTFS support etc.

ext3 and ext4 (for example) should be fine.

Once installed, you can edit lines 12 & 13 of /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf, changing the mount points to /media/NAS etc.