ubuntu mount wont work

[babadoctor]

USB disks will not mount on startup without waiting for them to connect first

 

I do not want to edit fstab because it's risky and people have said it can corrupt your OS

 

Any ideas?

(Please ignore the code in comments)

 

EDIT: I added a sleep for 10 seconds and it seems to work now, however this is bad because now every command has to wait for the usb drives to mount before it can run.

 

Any other way I can do this without sleeping and waiting for the USB drives to initalize?

 

Is the solution ASYNC?

 

[Windows7ge]

I've edited fstab quite a few times with no issues. I can't say how well it plays will unpluggable devices though (should you unplug it and plug it back in will it remount? I can't say.)