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I rebooted my Raspberry Pi and discovered it has auto mounted the external hard drive under /media/pi/driveLabel! I had originally created a mount point at ~/USBHDD/ before the reboot.

How can I unmount from /media/pi and auto mount on ~/USBHDD/ every time I boot my Raspberry Pi? I'm running Raspbian Jessie.

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You will need to tell your system that you want this drive mounted to the directory of your choice by modifying /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda1 /home/pi/USBHDD/ auto,users,rw,uid=pi,gid=pi 0 0

Or, if you want only a particular drive to be mounted there and happen to know its UUID:

UUID=XXXX /home/pi/USBHDD/ auto,users,rw,uid=pi,gid=pi 0 0

Here is a good tutorial on the subject in case you get lost or face issues.

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    /dev/sda is generally a block device node, and what you mount are partitions containing filesystems, e.g., /dev/sda1 -- although this then presumes the first partition (so the UUID option is probably better).
    – goldilocks ♦
    Aug 16, 2016 at 16:25
  • @goldilocks Thanks for a quick catch, that's exactly what I meant to write.
    – Dmitry Grigoryev
    Aug 16, 2016 at 16:28
  • I think using UUID would be better approach, however how do I know UUID ? maybe sudo blkid
    – Ciasto piekarz
    Aug 17, 2016 at 6:20
  • @Ciastopiekarz For starters try ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/
    – Dmitry Grigoryev
    Aug 17, 2016 at 6:42
  • @DmitryGrigoryev does /etc/fstb executes before /etc/rc.local ?
    – Ciasto piekarz
    Aug 20, 2016 at 7:34

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