Shares Not Mounting on Reboot

thanksajdotcom

I have an issue where I have setup a cron job to mount three shares on every reboot. This is done via a shell script and a cron job that starts with @reboot.

@reboot /home/user/scripts/aj-mount-goflex

The script works because if I run it manually it executes without issue. The issue I'm having is that if I reboot my cloud Plex server, without these shares mounted, there is no content. Not sure why it's not working but wasn't sure where to check. I've had this issue in the past and it was an fstab issue but I'm not sure if that's where it is this time.

Thanks,
A.J.

EDIT: The issue with fstab was it was trying to run the script and the same things were in fstab. I have confirmed that the shares are not listed in fstab on this server.

scottalanmiller

Why are they in Cron rather than in fstab?

thanksajdotcom

@scottalanmiller said:

Why are they in Cron rather than in fstab?

I've had issues with fstab in the past. I found it worked better with a shell script and a cron job but maybe I need to try fstab again.

Reid Cooper

I would think that fstab would be the more normal way. You say that you have had issues in the past, what kinds of issues? Did they fail to mount or attempt to mount before the Samba services were available?

scottalanmiller

I haven't worked with Plex, but what does Plex do by default?

thanksajdotcom

Ok, so the issue I had before with fstab is that it was trying to mount the partition, which is mapped over Pertino, before the Pertino interface was up, I believe. I have edited my /etc/fstab file and then setup a cron job to tap into it.

@reboot mount -a

This seems to have taken care of the issue and it's working now. Kind of a h4x0r way to do it, but as long as it works.

thanksajdotcom

Plex and the mounting of the file shares are totally separate. Plex accesses the shares but has nothing to do with the mounting process.

thanksajdotcom

Ok, so a new issue I'm having on another server...

I think it has something to do with the escape character...

//172.16.255.6/GoFlex\ Home\ Personal   /media/goflex_dallas    auto    defaults,credentials=/home/aj/.smbcredentials   0       0
//172.16.255.5/GoFlex\ Home\ Personal   /media/goflex_landcare  auto    defaults,credentials=/home/aj/.smbcredentials   0       0
//172.16.255.6/GoFlex\ Home\ Personal   /srv/samba/share/goflex_dallas  auto    defaults,credentials=/home/aj/.smbcredentials   0       0
//172.16.255.5/GoFlex\ Home\ Personal   /srv/samba/share/goflex_landcare        auto    defaults,credentials=/home/aj/.smbcredentials   0       0

However, this is how it looks...

upload-03bef81b-2cea-42f0-a75c-1b815ac85d80

It's saying there is a syntax error at auto, but I know that's right. The whole command is right. The only difference between this and my other Plex server is the escape character for the space in the share name, which I can't change...

scottalanmiller

You are definitely missing the the quotes on some of those.

thanksajdotcom

@scottalanmiller said:

You are definitely missing the the quotes on some of those.

Where? and what kind of quotes?

coliver

@thanksajdotcom said:

@scottalanmiller said:

You are definitely missing the the quotes on some of those.

Where? and what kind of quotes?

Shouldn't it look something like this?

//172.16.255.6/"GoFlex Home Personal"

thanksajdotcom

@coliver said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

@scottalanmiller said:

You are definitely missing the the quotes on some of those.

Where? and what kind of quotes?

Shouldn't it look something like this?
//172.16.255.6/"GoFlex Home Personal"

That's still saying it's wrong too.

scottalanmiller

@thanksajdotcom said:

That's still saying it's wrong too.

Good start, at least.

coliver

@thanksajdotcom said:

@coliver said:
@thanksajdotcom said:

@scottalanmiller said:

You are definitely missing the the quotes on some of those.

Where? and what kind of quotes?

Shouldn't it look something like this?
//172.16.255.6/"GoFlex Home Personal"
That's still saying it's wrong too.

The other thing you can do is this:

"//172.16.255.6/GoFlex Home Personal"

But you shouldn't need to. Is there any other in-depth logs for this? Or does it just not work?

thanksajdotcom

@coliver said:

@thanksajdotcom said:
@coliver said:
@thanksajdotcom said:

@scottalanmiller said:

You are definitely missing the the quotes on some of those.

Where? and what kind of quotes?

Shouldn't it look something like this?
//172.16.255.6/"GoFlex Home Personal"
That's still saying it's wrong too.
The other thing you can do is this:
"//172.16.255.6/GoFlex Home Personal"
But you shouldn't need to. Is there any other in-depth logs for this? Or does it just not work?

Tried that too. That is not working either, and it's showing as a syntax error. It just doesn't work.

thanksajdotcom

This did it.
http://www.simpit.com/wordpress/?p=626

The syntax is:

//172.16.255.6/GoFlex\040Home\040Personal

thanksajdotcom

Beautiful! Everything works as it should now!

thanksajdotcom

The issue was the spaces. Even with the escape character, it was not liking the space. Thus you use the escape character backslash and then 040 to symbolize a space.

Reid Cooper

That's interesting. Quotes without the escapes should make that unnecessary. Interesting way to fix it, though.

thanksajdotcom

@Reid-Cooper said:

That's interesting. Quotes without the escapes should make that unnecessary. Interesting way to fix it, though.

Yeah, the quotes was still showing it as a syntax error.