USB drive not mounting properly when rebooted.

[fizzgig656]

hi, hope this is the right area, ive added a USB drive to be shared and monitored by bittorrent. but when i reboot it does not mount properly? help.

i added the disk in management, formated, then mounted. if i look for it in the CIFS/SMB services its their, if i reboot and look again its not?

am i doing something wrong?

[fizzgig656]

it seems that N4F thinks the usb is mounted, but it can not be seen as mounted? ie i can not see it to create a share. If i use the disk/mount point/tools to mount the usb it fails as already mounted. if i unmount then remount it, all works fine. till i reboot then it starts again?

any thought.

[LA70]

Got curious and tried an USB-disk, did 'Import Disks' - formatted as UFS, created mountpoint and shared as smb/cifs.. and it worked just fine after reboot, so sorry I'm no help at all , but try another USB-port, some might use an internal HUB.

[fizzgig656]

Got curious and tried an USB-disk, did 'Import Disks' - formatted as UFS, created mountpoint and shared as smb/cifs.. and it worked just fine after reboot, so sorry I'm no help at all , but try another USB-port, some might use an internal HUB.

ok thanks, i tried a few ports and a different usb stick, added disk, formatted using standard defaults, created mount and before adding as a smb i check that is was visible to ass, then rebooted and although the mount shows ok, i can't see it in SMB to share. if i use the tool(from memory) tab where you can select the drive and run a mount, it fails, if i run a unmount it fails, then if i run the mount again it completed. weird, i didnt think i wan doing it wrong. but how can i resolve. not a fresh install??

[fizzgig656]

ok , took the hammer approach and formatted the os drive and flash drives. im typing this as i go, so new OS installed, formatted and mounted the usb i was having issues with. seems to stay mounted this time properly after a reboot. when i add my raidz it seems to not mount properly. so destroy the raid and format time???

[fizzgig656]

finally got there, deleted everything and start again. dunno what was causing it but seems ok now. now to set up the services, but im sure this has been worked around.