mounting folder on start-up

joeman3429 · 10-12-2005, 06:15 PM

Hello,
So I have a fat32 partition all setup and working in both Windows and Fedora, but I have to mount the partition manually each time I restart.
I know there's a way to run scripts at start-up, but I'm no expert at linux. If you could just point me to the script file or whatever it is I'm sure can figure it out from there.

Thanks

anomie · 10-12-2005, 06:20 PM

Have a look at

Code:

cat /etc/fstab

You just need an entry that includes your partition, mount point, fileystem type and mount options.

If you still have questions, post again..

joeman3429 · 10-12-2005, 06:41 PM

thanks for the quick responce, works great.
For anybody that cares I appended this to my /etc/fstab file

Code:

/dev/sdb1               /mnt/windows            fat32   defaults        0 0

Just one question. I put "0 0" at the end, and it seems to work fine. What does using the other options do?
/ has 1 1
and /boot has 1 2
does it really matter?

anomie · 10-12-2005, 09:13 PM

This is from the

Code:

man fstab

pages:

Quote:

The fifth field, (fs_freq), is used for these filesystems by the dump(8) command to determine which filesystems need to be dumped. If the fifth field is not present, a value of zero is returned and dump will assume that the filesystem does not need to be dumped.

The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to deter‐mine the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. The root filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other filesystems should have a fs_passno of 2. Filesystems within a drive will be checked sequentially, but filesystems on different drives will be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism available in the hardware. If the sixth field is not present or zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck will assume that the filesystem does not need to be checked.