edit fstab to mount a second harddrive
 

hi,
I'm running slackware 10. here is my problem, I want my second harddrive to be mounted automatically when the system boots up and every user will be able to read and write to the partition, so I edited the /etc/fstab file with following extra line:

/dev/hdc1 /home/chongluo ext3 umask=000 0 0

so here is the fstab file looklike now:

/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hdc1 /home/chongluo ext3 umask=000 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

however, this does not work, the partition is not mounted when the system boots up, am I missing something?

please kindly advise?

use the same options as hda2, i.e. "defaults 1 1", offhand it looks fine other than that....

no, I made the changes, still not working, the partitions is still not mounted at boot up

here the fstab after I made the change:

/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /home/chongluo ext3 umask=000 1 1


I cann't see what is wrong with it

Well, for one thing you do not need the umask option for an ext3 partition.

Try to mount the partiton manually. If that fails post the error messages. Like:
mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc1 /home/chongluo

Are you sure the second drive is located on the 2nd IDE controller master slot? Does the BIOS & OS recognize the drive. Look at the output of the dmesg command to verify.

I'm able to mount the partition manually, using the mount command. and obviously I'm sure the ext3 partition is connected to secondary master.

so I used the command dmesg to see what is there:
.......

EXT3-fs: Unrecognized mount option umask

.....
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide1(22,1), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

I think the umask is causing the problem, but I want to every user be able to read, write and execute to the partition when it is mounted, so how can I do that without using umask???
please advise

Use the chmod command to change the permissions of the /home/chongluo (unmount the filesystem first).

BTW
Is chongluo is a regular user?

Are there any existing files in /home/chongluo? If so once /dev/hdc1 is mounted any existing files in that directory will not be accessible.

The man pages for fstab and mount describ the options for each filesystem. umask is an a valid option for a ext3 filesystem.

the problem is that the /dev/hdc1 is not mounted when it boots up, I have to mannually mount it use 'mount' command

I want the partition mounted when the system boots up, see my fstab above, it doesn't work

hi,
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/dev/hdc1 /home/chongluo ext3 umask=000 1
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should read:
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/dev/hdc1 /home/chongluo ext3 rw,user,exec 1 2
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works fo me...
( and do a "chmod 770 /home/chongluo " )

egag

thanks, eaga, it works for me now

ok, happy to hear... :)

good luck with linux...

egag