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Pila

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External HD plugged into a Router. After each boot gets properly mounted (check with df -h and mount). But, Media server and Samba share do not work after each (re)boot. After another reboot, all is well!?! I do not do anything else, just extra reboot.

Mostly it takes only one extra reboot for things to be fixed, but yesterday I had to make 3 extra reboots until the Media server and Samba share worked.

I have had similar problems previously with other USB devices on Asus Routers, so this is not linked to my particular devices. I have had the same problem with both Asus RT-AC56U and Asus RT-AC68U (which is the one currently described here). Firmware: 380.59. HD WD 3TB USB3 NTFS but I do not beleive it is a problem by itself. Noticed the same problem previously on a ac56 with USB stick as the only device attached.

I have logs, but do not know exactly what to look for, and what I see, does not explain anything to me. Services get started, stopped, started...
 
Try using a persistent name for the mounted file-system. I dunno how to do that with NTFS, but with ext[2-4] it would be something like "tune2fs -L blah /dev/sda1".
 

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