freespire-how to automatically mount drives at startup
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freespire-how to automatically mount drives at startup
hi, i was wondering how to mount a hard drive at startup because when i first started to use Linux-freespire(dual one drive, slave another). I had problems reading ntfs so i just changed my slave drive from ntfs to fat32(40GB, 20/20). and when i returned to xp it came up perfect, but when i went to freespire, it read one but not the other ( it only read hdb2, not hdb1). and i got advice from the forums and tried to manually mount and it worked/ but every time i start freespire i have to remount it manually. is there anyway i can have do it by it self.
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Have you changed your /etc/fstab to reflect the changes in the slave drive ? When those drives are mounted, the data needed mount them is pulled from /etc/fstab, (file type and a few other things I think), and if they should be auto mounted at all.
but the thing i confused of is that hdb1 is already entered in my fstab (as seen above). but is listed as a ntfs type filesystem. but when i look at hdb2 it say everything that hdb1 has but has vfat in it. what do i do from here.
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Well, just edit /etc/fstab to reflect the change from ntfs to vfat. If that drive isn't ntfs anymore, any place /etc/fstab says ntfs when it really is vfat, just replace "ntfs" with "vfat" (no quotes of course). Make sure you do it as root. Ahhh linspire.....never mind....you are always root... ....
Then reboot....see if that partition is auto-mounted this time.
I'm not 100% sure that is the cause of your auto mounting problems....but it probably is, and should be fixed anyway....
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Just find that partitions entry in /etc/fstab, and change the "ro" part to "rw". That's read only to read write. Unmount them, then mount them, and see if it worked. It should.
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