Hi guys i have been looking around the net and cant find any info on how to mount my hda4 at boot up ony flash drives

I am using mepis and had to reinstall it now every time I want to listen to mp3's I have to mount this partion my self which is geting annoying now

how can I get mepis to auto mount my hda4

i know you use a script but have never done any thing like that yet.
but how do i do that in say kright [text editor]

where is that file located that they say I need to edit
and what do i need to put in there

it is a primary parton

be great for your help

add to /etc/fstab a line:

/dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 auto umask=0222,rw,auto 0 0

and remember to create /mnt/hda4 (that's where it gets mounted, you can change that). if you don't want everybody to get their hands on it, remove that "umask=0222" from the list..read the manpages of

for more options.

Hi there I have this in my /ect/fstabs file

this is the orignal one which I have a back up for I did just in case I messed it up

# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
/dev/hda3 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
# Dynamic entries below, identified by 'users' option
/dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660,udf noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0


hi the code I tryed first by taking out "noauto" to "auto" that did
not work so I then tryed your line at "/dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0" and just put your line in place this did not work so I added it to the top the 3 line down

there is also an red zero "0.0" the last zero is red is this normal

well it did not mount it and I could not mount it manulay so I put it back by using my back up copy of that file


any help guys

any help guys this is the first time i have ever tryed this.
a newbe to scripting - that will help me out with fucture problems

It should work if you change your original:

/dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0

To:

/dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 ext3 auto,users,exec 0 0

Hi there Arow I all ready tryed that one using root and it just went back to "noauto" agen when i booted up next time. so I tryed it agen and still no luck. I did it in kwright and nothing seemd to work just it seems it always goes back to "noauto"


that other thing b0unce said seem to give me an error as I have said in one of my posts the hda4 hard-drive icon went red like the other hard-drives but it came up with an error's. but kwright had funny

0.0

so I think the line must be rong some how as it did not work

as the other zeros are all black exept for the line that I put in that one time?

Well, I always edit my configuration files using nano or vi from a terminal. I can't imagine why it would revert back to "noauto" unless you're forgetting to save the file or you're not editing the file as root.

You could also try,

/dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 ext3 defaults 0 0

as defaults includes auto mount.

The 0.0 is odd in my experience. This is probably because KWrite is interpreting the 0 0 as something else. Try editing the file as root in nano or vi.

1. nano -w /etc/fstab

2. Make the change.

3. CTRL+X to exit and choose to save your changes.