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Hello friends, I want to mount a partition automatically when ubuntu starts. I have read some articles about but i think i make some mistake. I have read about etc/fstab ...
  1. 01-05-2010 #1
    Utnubu
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    how to mount automatically

    Hello friends,

    I want to mount a partition automatically when ubuntu starts.
    I have read some articles about but i think i make some mistake.
    I have read about etc/fstab and I wrote a statement below.

    /dev/sda5 /home/xyz/Desktop/ABC udf,iso9660 user,auto,exec,utf8 0 0

    what is wrong?

    I want only when I open my computer, some partitions can be usable.
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    Which Linux distro are you using? What is the filesystem of partition that you want to automount?

    Create mount point for each partition and edit /etc/fstab accordingly. Let say, /dev/sda5 has NTFS filesystem.
    Create mount_point
    Code:
    sudo mkdir /media/data
    Add this code in /etc/fstab file
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    /dev/sda5    /media/data  ntfs-3g  defaults,umask=0  0  0
    Replace ntfs-3g with vfat for FAT32.
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    i use ubuntu.
    and i want to mount shared partitions
    i can use them in ubuntu and windows as well.
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    Post the output of sudo fdisk -l command here.

    Code:
    sudo fdisk -l
df -h
    Post output here.
    * Its small L in fdisk -l.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Utnubu View Post
    i use ubuntu.
    and i want to mount shared partitions
    i can use them in ubuntu and windows as well.
    Are you talking about network shares?
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