[Lvlug] mounting "drives" when you boot up Linux.

[Albert Seminatore]

Heath:
 The drive is the primary drive in my laptop.  I have Linux installed on a USB SDD drive.  When the system boots up I go to Places and see all the partitions I should see.  But the Data1 (sda5) and Data2 (sda6) aren't mounted until I pull them on the desktop.
  So I took your advice and tried to modify fstab.  On bootup it said it couldn't mount it and enter S to skip.  Which I did.  When I went to places Data1 was there so I tried to pull it on to the desk top..  ERROR:  Only root can mount the drive.
  Now there is only one person running this machine and I usually can do anything I want.  Some times I have to use sudo but that is after the system is up.
  Here is a copy of the fstab file:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
/dev/sdb1       /               ext3    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sdb5 during installation
UUID=6e841883-23af-4121-a8ab-855da2f38a42 none            swap    sw              0       0
# mount the ntfs partitions
/dev/sda5    /media/sda5    default 1    2    

Help!!!.................   Al
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:52:30 -0600
From: heath petty <hpetty1 at gmail.com>
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What kind of drives are you 
trying to mount? USB and other external
"hotplug" type drives should 
be mounted automatically (or you should see an
icon on the desktop to
 mount them). If its an internal SATA drive, then you
will need to 
add an /etc/fstab entry for it. For example I have a second
SATA 
drive in my system with two partitions, sdb1 and sdb2. To mount those
at
 boot on my Fedora system I add the following lines:

/dev/sdb1   
     /media/sdb1        ext3    defaults    1 2
/dev/sdb2        
/media/sdb2        ext3    defaults    1 2

If you are using a 
different filesystem you'll need to change ext3 to what
ever 
filesystem you are using. And for your information, the first 1 means
check
 the filesystem at mount time, and the 2 means to mount it after the
root
 filesystem has been mounted.

-Heath

Albert Seminatore  
Mountain Falls in Pahrump, NV
E-Mail:    alsemus at yahoo.com  




      
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