edit fstab to mount all drives automatically at boot.

AGazzaz · 06-11-2013, 08:56 AM

Hello,
I want to edit fstab to mount all drives at boot, so I would not have to enter the root password every time I start the computer.

my current fstab file contents:

Code:

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS542512K9SA00_071119BB0200WBH5Z2YC-part9 swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS542512K9SA00_071119BB0200WBH5Z2YC-part10 /                    ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 1
proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0

I am using openSUSE 12.3 and please note that all drives to be mounted are NTFS

Thank you.

yancek · 06-11-2013, 09:39 AM

You need to create a mount point for each partition and then put an entry for each in the fstab file. Do you mean you want to give a user or users rw access? If so, put user in the options.

AGazzaz · 06-11-2013, 11:26 AM

I have already created the folders but can you tell me what to write in the options other than user?

yancek · 06-11-2013, 02:31 PM

The opensuse link below gives some examples:

http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NTFS

or this link:

http://swerdna.dyndns.org/susentfs.html

frankbell · 06-11-2013, 06:37 PM

This is the best tutorial on fstab that I have found. It should help:

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

I think it was written before UUID became common, but it still works.

ajohn · 06-21-2013, 05:57 AM

You may be having problems due to NTFS. Opensuse aren't keen on enabling all aspects - format,read,write. A web search for NTFS format opensuse will probably clear that up as NTFS is built into the kernel.

Normally fstab is set up during install via custom partitioning if needed which allows you to set up partitions how ever you want but I don't think it offers ntfs as a formatting option. I use a usb docking station and found that I had to use a linux format on the disk. On the other hand if the disk had been pre formatted with NTFS is may have been ok.

I'd guess that you may want to use NTFS as you have windows kicking around maybe dual booting. When I did that sort of thing I found that installing a free windows linux file reading app the easiest way to share files. Long time ago but the application will still be around. Now if I run windows at all I run it under virtualbox etc on a pure linux system.

One other reason that you may be having to enter the root password after booting up is that you haven't added your own user account to the system. If you want to go straight into that without using a password that's up to you. Running as root for normal use really isn't a good idea.

John
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