Mounting via fstab

In this recipe, we are going to automount our drives using the fstab (located at /etc/fstab) system file.

Getting ready

The following components are required to mount drives conveniently using the fstab file:

• A working Linux system on the Banana Pi

• A USB flash drive and/or a SATA drive

• In case of a SATA drive, a working connection to your Banana Pi and a suitable power supply

• Access to the Banana Pi's shell

How to do it…

Perform the following to configure a drive in your fstab:

1. Connect your devices accordingly.

2. Power your Banana Pi and initiate the boot sequence.

3. Open a shell.

4. Determine the used filesystems by blkid on attached partitions:

   $ sudo blkid
   

5. You will get information about all the available partitions. In the following screenshot, you see that the drive /dev/sda has three partitions (sda1 using ext4, sda2 using FAT32, and sda3 using NTFS):

   

6. Create the necessary target directories to mount these partitions:

   $ sudo mkdir /mnt/ext4_partition
   $ sudo mkdir /mnt/fat_partition
   $...