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Seagate external hard disk creating problems

I've bought a new hard disk, a Seagate (Backup Plus), but I'm having problems with it. Firstly, it doesn't mounts every time I plug it in. In such cases, I've got to restart the machine to work with ...
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How Do I use autofs to map a USB drive by its ID?

Goal I have a USB drive -- let's say the drive's ID is /dev/disk/by-id/thediskid I would like to mount the drive -- by ID -- to a folder (let's call it /MOUNT_FOLDER) Question What is the best ...
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Why is my fstab entry for an external USB drive not working?

I have an external USB drive which my system recognizes as /dev/sdb1. I want to have it automounted with 755 permissions on boot and shared over the network with samba. I created the mount point ...