[clug-talk] clug-talk Digest, Vol 53, Issue 27

[Gustin Johnson]

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simon at mungewell.org wrote:
>> Thanx for the way to get the windows drive in xubuntu. You said something
>> about adding a line in /etc/fstab ??  I have never done something like
>> this.
>> How do I do it that at every boot up I can see the hard drive in the file
>> system??
>>
>>
> 
> You can use your favorite text editor to specify additional
> items/partitions in the '/etc/fstab' file.
> 
> You'll also need to make and an empty directory to use as the mount point.
> 
> Sample attached below,
> Simon.
> 
> 
> --
> simon at tupak:~$ cat /etc/fstab
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> # /dev/sda1
> UUID=dbfd6a92-f719-479f-a179-a555cf643313 /               ext3   
> errors=remount-ro 0       1
> # /dev/sda9
> UUID=8008400e-0ac6-4c17-8a40-d30b77c85ef8 /home           ext3    defaults
>        0       2
> # /dev/sdb1
> UUID=23def086-0547-4a73-8818-e2a54079283a /media/sdb1     ext2    defaults
>        0       2
> --

You can find a device's uuid from /dev/disk/by-uuid (eg. "ls -l
/dev/disk/by-uuid").  You can use "ls -l /dev/disk/by-id" to help
identify the various block devices (aka storage devices, hard drives,
flash drives etc.) that are currently attached to your system.
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