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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?

Edit: Not sure if this added context changes anything, but this is the HDD I'm using. It's a 3.5" HDD that gets its power directly from the wall.

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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Autofs might do what you're looking for. How often do you have power outages that it's a major concern?

[–] Lenna@piefed.ca 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

I was going to mention that, but also that while I'm sure that it'd handle power loss while it's unmounted the filesystem I don't know what happens if the backing storage goes away while it's in use.