[knives of ice]

You need to use "stickmount" to mount you external hhd, at least that's what I had to do it's in the play store and you may want to spring the $3 for the pro version, I found that the ext drive name likes to change when rebooted, and you are continually having to point at the new location, I think the pro version lets you lock down the name, but I never bought it so emphasis on think. I tried fstab, scripts etc. the trick should be mount by uuid, but could not get that to work..

but doesn't stickmount require root?