I’m running a Ubuntu server on my old laptop with an external HDD connected to it. The external HDD is powered independently from the laptop, as it is plugged into the wall.
During a power outage, my laptop remains operational due to its battery, but the HDD shuts down. When power is restored, my laptop does not automatically remount the HDD, and I have to reboot the system manually to access it.
Does anyone know how I can resolve this issue?
You can run mount -a to mount all fstab entries. You could put that in a cronjob I guess
If I were to make it run that command every 5 minutes, would there be any downsides?
I don’t know if it has side effects when there’s issues with mounting or the like.
It would also interfere if you want to unmount it and forget to disable the cronjob.