I tried it like this, to mount it at boot. But this entry in fstab

Code:

# /dev/sdb1: LABEL="save"
UUID="6638df0e-22a9-4f70-9b77-93d40cbf9e5e        /dev/sdb1           ext2     auto        0       1

tells me that the special device is not available.

I have to translate this into english, the installation I made is not english.


Trying again, needing more coffee and chocolate, because its a riddle, that I still use an mp3-player bought back in 2009, that since then never caused any trouble plugging it in, on Ubuntu, BSD, Fedora and Debian. This tiny mp3-player and its software is made by a well known japanese OEM brand. So what is the riddle with that fstab to not recognize a OEM brand hdd. Last attempt threw me back to rescue mode. An unknown device, blinking initfs or ramfs, not even rebooting was accepted.

rethinking the mount point, as my fstab tells me root is at /, I typed into the fstab a mountpoint that is given by the command

Code:

 blkid

in the /etc folder, but trying as root to mount just like this

Code:

 mount /dev/sdb1

once again I am told the special device is not there. Yep, very special.
So the root acts like this

Code:

root@tractor4:/etc# blkid
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="save" UUID="6638df0e-22a9-4f70-9b77-93d40cbf9e5e" TYPE="ext2" PARTUUID="000f1893-01"
/dev/sda1: UUID="e2255ef4-f184-402f-8d1b-19b3383ba3e3" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="b5bb2799-01"
/dev/sda5: UUID="5d503d09-71c0-4b00-8ed1-4b28239d4462" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="b5bb2799-05"

The fstab looks now like this

Code:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=e2255ef4-f184-402f-8d1b-19b3383ba3e3 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=5d503d09-71c0-4b00-8ed1-4b28239d4462 none            swap    sw                0       0
# /sdb1 on /dev/sdb1
UUID="6638df0e-22a9-4f70-9b77-93d40cbf9e5e /dev/sdb1      ext2    auto,rw           0       1

I already tried default as an option, dump set to 2, it remains unreadable. So, if someone has got a better hint than wiki for fstab on unix-like systems, I would appreciate it.