On 08.06.2015, Heinz Diehl wrote: To be more precise, here's what works and what don't, in detail (and after a fresh install of Arch): The USB memory is xfs formatted and works fine: [root@alarmpi /]# lsblk -f NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT sda `-sda1 xfs ff17dda9-fcae-42e7-a438-9087de58902e mmcblk0 |-mmcblk0p1 vfat EA5B-4477 /boot `-mmcblk0p2 ext4 c4ddc925-15ab-4465-ac78-967a845e98d5 / Now, it's nilfs2 formatted: [root@alarmpi /]# mkfs.nilfs2 /dev/sda1 WARNING: Device /dev/sda1 appears to contain an existing xfs superblock. WARNING: All data will be lost after format! DO YOU REALLY WANT TO FORMAT DEVICE /dev/sda1? Continue? [y/N] y mkfs.nilfs2 (nilfs-utils 2.2.3) Start writing file system initial data to the device Blocksize:4096 Device:/dev/sda1 Device Size:32026656768 File system initialization succeeded !! After that, all seems to be ok. lsblk shown no double uuid: [root@alarmpi /]# lsblk -f NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT sda `-sda1 nilfs2 98da384c-392e-4551-98c0-d076524f5d8b mmcblk0 |-mmcblk0p1 vfat EA5B-4477 /boot `-mmcblk0p2 ext4 c4ddc925-15ab-4465-ac78-967a845e98d5 / [root@alarmpi /]# Now the USB drive gets manually mounted, all is ok: [root@alarmpi /]# mount /dev/sda1 /USBDRIVE [root@alarmpi /]# lsblk -f NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT sda `-sda1 nilfs2 98da384c-392e-4551-98c0-d076524f5d8b /USBDRIVE mmcblk0 |-mmcblk0p1 vfat EA5B-4477 /boot `-mmcblk0p2 ext4 c4ddc925-15ab-4465-ac78-967a845e98d5 / Now, the newly formatted drive is registered in fstab to be automatically mounted on boot: UUID=ff17dda9-fcae-42e7-a438-9087de58902e /USBDRIVE nilfs2 defaults 0 0 After rebooting the machine, nothing is mounted, and lsblk shows the double uuid: [root@alarmpi /]# lsblk -f NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT sda 98da384c-392e-4551-98c0-d076524f5d8b `-sda1 nilfs2 98da384c-392e-4551-98c0-d076524f5d8b mmcblk0 |-mmcblk0p1 vfat EA5B-4477 /boot `-mmcblk0p2 ext4 c4ddc925-15ab-4465-ac78-967a845e98d5 / The logs say: Jun 08 11:23:47 alarmpi mount: mount.nilfs2: Error while mounting /dev/sda on /USBDRIVE: Device or resource busy Jun 08 11:23:47 alarmpi systemd: Failed to mount /USBDRIVE. Here it becomes clear what happens: the system wants to mount /dev/sda rather than /dev/sda1, and thus fails. Out of curiosity, I tried both xfs, ext4 and btrfs, and all of them just work. Thanks, Heinz. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html