Permanently mount other drives/partitions in OpenSuSE 10.2

[martinfromdublin]

Hi all,

Can anyone provide me with instructions how to permanently mount my other drives and their respective partitions in OpenSuSe 10.2? In 10.0 (which I also use) they're there automatically and all I need do is create a link on the desktop but not so in 10.2, I have to keep adding them to the /mnt/ folder in my home directory.

Martin

[tech_man]

Just edit your /etc/fstab.

[martinfromdublin]

Sorry, I've never edited /etc/fstab in SuSe, only in Mandriva and the 2 look different. Can you help?

Here's what my /etc/fstab looks like;

/dev/hda8 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0

I want to add entries for hda1 (labelled 'Master'), hda5 (Win2000), hdb1 (Slave_XP) and hdf5 (Archive)


Martin

[michaellouis]

I'm really new at this, so i'm not really giving qualified advice.

When I mounted my windows sata drive, I created a folder (in this case called /windows/F and then added a line like this in the /etc/fstab

dev/sda1 /windows/F ntfs

but sda1 was my specific drive and the ntfs is the file system.

However, I just copied the drive privilages of my other windows drives which go after ntfs.

[martinfromdublin]

Thanks michaellouis, that worked. I just copy/pasted the line above in my fstab, added a new entry then pasted. All I needed to do then was change the name of the /dev/ and name the partition itself. It works in SuSe 10.0 as well!

Martin

[martinfromdublin]

I'm afraid I'm still not out of the woods yet. Now in OpenSuSe the icons appear on the desktop but I can't open them until I mount them in the /mnt/ directory, which is what I had to keep doing before but in SuSe 10.0 everything is fine...? Have I missed something?

Martin

[devils casper]

I'm afraid I'm still not out of the woods yet. Now in OpenSuSe the icons appear on the desktop but I can't open them until I mount them in the /mnt/ directory, which is what I had to keep doing before but in SuSe 10.0 everything is fine...? Have I missed something?

MArtin

post the contents of /etc/fstab file and output of fdisk -l command.






Casper

[darkrose0510]

Can you post what you have in your /etc/fstab now?

Beaten by devils_casper

[martinfromdublin]

Here you go;

/dev/hda8 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdf5 archive Fat32 defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 win2000 Fat32 defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 master Fat32 defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 slave_XP Fat32 defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0


Martin

[devils casper]

/dev/hdf5 archive Fat32 defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 win2000 Fat32 defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 master Fat32 defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 slave_XP Fat32 defaults 0 0

its should be vfat instead of FAT32 and mount_point path is not correct.
where did you create mount_points archive, win2000 master and slave_XP?
i assume that you have created mount_points ( folders ) in /media folder.
correct code is

/dev/hdf5 /media/archive vfat defaults,umask=0 0 0

there isn't any entry for NTFS partition. post the output of fdisk -l command.






Casper