FSTAB

[Pep]

Hi All,

I have already gone through an imense amount of reading on the topic of FSTAB and Mounting and I'm still stumped... I have 2 Windows Partitions C:\ and D:\ that for the life of me I cannot not get them to mount correctly and automaticallly on each boot.

Here is my current FSTAB

none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0

# /dev/sda1, size=41945652, type=12: Win98 FAT32, LBA-mapped (primary)
/dev/sda1 /mnt/vfat vfat user,exec,rw,auto,iocharset=utf8,umask=0 0 0

# /dev/sda5, size=83891367, type=6: DOS FAT16 (extended)
/dev/sda5 /mnt/wind vfat user,exec,rw,auto,iocharset=utf8,umask=0 0 0

# /dev/sda6, size=4208967, type=130: Linux swap (extended)
/dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0

# /dev/sda7, size=20980827, type=131: Journalised FS: ext3 (extended)
/dev/sda7 / ext3 noatime 1 1

# /dev/sda8, size=41399442, type=131: Journalised FS: ext3 (extended)
/dev/sda8 /home ext3 noatime 1 2

# cdrom: _NEC DVD+-RW ND-6650A
# /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom auto user,exec,ro,noauto 0 0

If I remove SDA1 and SDA5 from my FSTAB they do mount but not automatically and when I view the Properties they are listed as Mounted as media/HQ and media/ Wonder Land

I'm thinking the error has to with the mnt/"name" I have my Win partitions named as HQ (C:\) and Wonder Land (D:\)

Would anyone have some advice on what may be casuing this...?

Thanks.

[wolfden]

all drives should be auto mounting, have you looked in /media ?

[Pep]

They all do appear under media but until I double click on them the little green arrow under the icon doesn't appear and they do not show up as mounted drives on my desktop. For example I have a list of mp3's that I play with amarok and until I double click on the volume they wont play in Amarok which leads me to believe they aren't auto mounting.

[Tiago]

They all do appear under media but until I double click on them the little green arrow under the icon doesn't appear

Just to make sure... You mean you've looked under /mnt right? because that's where you're mounting the drives. Anyway, i used to have the same problem and solved it by adding the defaults option. These are my two other partitions in fstab:

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/dev/sda6 /media/Misc ntfs-3g defaults,locale=pt_PT.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/Data ntfs-3g defaults,locale=pt_PT.UTF-8 0 0


[watson540]

i thought with udev you had to work some mojo to get fstab working? thought i read that somewhere, dunno..havent messed with it in forever

[chickpea]

Are you overthinking this? Have you tried the old kde right-click--->properties----->mount automatically?

That may resolve it (although in my experience it doesn't), just wanted to make sure that it wasn't something easy that would resolve this without messing with /etc/fstab or udev rules (which in my experience are dangerous things to play with).

[Stupot]

chickpea, the kde right-click to mount automatically has never worked for me. I've always used fstab and it seems pretty safe to me. If I put something wrong in it, it normally just fails to mount.

[chickpea]

Yeah, I know that the automounting option in kde usually doesn't work, it never has for me, but fooling with /etc/fstab can be painful if you're not careful. Trust me on this one.

[Pep]

Hi All,

yeh the "Mount Automatically" Option just doesn't work... What seems odd is that my Original FSTAB only had my Linux Volumes listed yet my Windows Drives would show up but as I said I would have to enter the volume before it would completely mount (show little green arrow)...?

[brendan]

Personally, I would always just use UUID based drive mounting. It makes your life so much easier....particularly when dealing with drives that can appear under differing spots in the dev tree. Here's a link describing this process.

- Brendan