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?

Would this be something you’re talking about? It’s the cheapest one I can see on Amazon here in Canada.

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?

So that means it’s not possible for me to power my 3.5" HDD with just USB, right?

Do you have a USB power bank you can recommend? My external HDD requires a wall plug and I’ve never seen a USB power bank where I could plug my HDD into it.

Could you please elaborate on why this is a bad idea?

If I were to make it run that command every 5 minutes, would there be any downsides?

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?

I had a laptop lying around and computer parts are too expensive now to build my own server, so that’s what I went with. Is the concern you have involving loss of data?