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/etc/fstab contains a listing of all of the potential mounted drives on the system both local and remote. The file /etc/rc.sysinit reads the /etc/fstab to mount the drives on startup. This text file is the file you edit if you wanted to mount a partition permanently once the system boots. One point to note, this file lists potential partitions that can be mounted, it does not however guarantee that they are actually mounted.
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