And that’s slightly better than “this happened weeks ago but we’re just now getting around to updating everyone because we were trying to hide the fact that we had a leadership change”.

Thank you so much!

Here’s the link from your instance: https://anarchist.nexus/post/677094

If that doesn’t work, the title of the thread is “How to auto remount external HDD after power loss”.

Thank you for the rule change! I had a post deleted previously and there were some pretty helpful advice in there on how to manage my HDD. Any chance you may be able to restore it so I can look at those comments again?

This is my HDD. Aren’t these guys able to handle power losses since people usually plug them in to backup stuff, and then pull the plug once they’re done?

And does ext4 count as a journaling file system?

It doesn’t happen often, but when it does happen I temporarily lose access to my media. But based on what others are saying here, it looks like it’s possible to manually remount my drive instead of rebooting. So I’ll give that a try.

Nope, I haven’t tried that. But I will give it a try when the next power outage occurs. I actually didn’t know I could manually remount until today. I’m still pretty new to selfhosting.

I shall give this a try the next time it loses power. Thank you.

auto-mounting system that only happens to run at boot

This is correct. I made my drive auto mount using /etc/fstab, and I believe that is only checked once during boot.

My /etc/fstab file currently has the following:

UUID=412ea77a-96e1-427c-9f75-2aae2fe0dca1 /mnt/wd ext4 defaults 0 2

If I were to use the mnt-data.mount you’ve suggested, does that mean I need to delete what I already have in /etc/fstab and replace it with what you suggested?