I have an external USB drives with an NTFS and FAT32 partition. This USB drive is connected through an external USB hub.
Now here's the problem. I've setup fstab as i think is appropriate. But the systems says:
mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist
mount: special device /dev/sdb5 does not exist

Later on it says during boot:
Activating remaining swap-devices in /etc/fstab...
(is it possible to set when it should try to mount things).

Anyway, once linux is up and running, I try to access the folders to which they should be mounted - and obviously they still empty.

if i type mount /dev/sdb1 (or 5) it says only root can mount
and when i use su to mount as root - it works. So why is the system not mounting on boot.

Fstab is as follows:
/dev/sda6 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/sda1 /windows/C ntfs umask=0000,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sda5 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/sdb1 /windows/D ntfs auto,umask=0000,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sdb5 /windows/E vfat auto,umask=0000,utf8=true 0 0

also, is there a possible way around this to instead allow any user to just mount /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb5 automatically when trying to access it after booting instead at least?

note /dev/sda1 mounts perfectly on its own during boot - but that is an internet sata drive.

Thanks

I edited fstab as follows
/dev/sdb1 /windows/D ntfs user,umask=0000,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sdb5 /windows/E vfat user,umask=0000,utf8=true 0 0

This still gives the same error during boot up - ie that device:
mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist
mount: special device /dev/sdb5 does not exist

but at least I can now mount it as any user