I am running Ubuntu 8.10

I have a drive that I would like to mount on boot. I know that to do it would be to add a line to fstab. But I don't know how to fill in the extra items.

The drive is sdb5 and it's name is DATA.

Hopefully someone can lead me by the hand to do it.

Thanks,

José

I'll probably be something like this:
/dev/sdb5 MOUNTPOINT FILESYSTEMTYPE defaults 0 0

Replce MOUNTPOINT with the empty folder on your filesystem where you'd like to mount it at and replace FILESYSTEMTYPE with the type of filesystem (ie. ext3, nfts-3g, xfs, etc.).

That last number is the priority order for a filesystem scan. For example, you will see it is '1' for '/' and if other partitions are mounted for /home and so on, they will have higher numbers (usually just '2'). This ensures that if the file system checker decides two partitions must be checked at the same time, it will always give priority to '/'. This number should be '0' in some situations such as for the '/sys' virtual filesystem and for real partitions which aren't really checked by a filesystem scanner (swap, ntfs, fat ...).

ell, this is what I did:

/dev/sdb5 media/DATA vfat default 0 0

But obviously it is not right since it did not mount... even worse, I could not mount it manually.

Posibly the problem is with the "mount point" since I am not at all sure what that should be.

But thanks fo far!

José

Well, here is what I did:

/dev/sdb5 /media/DATA vfat defaults 0 0

But it is not right, since the drive did not mount, and even worse, I cannot mount it manually now.

I suspect the problem could be with "mount point" since I am not at all sure what that means.

Anyway, thanks for a start.
José

The "mount point" is any directory in the filesystem tree. If it does not exist, you have to create it before using the mount command.

eg:
mkdir /mnt/mydata
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/mydata

Once you have an entry in fstab, you can mount using:
mount -a ## mounts everything in fstab
mount <mountpoint> ##mount the specific mountpoint defined in fstab

OK... thanks. I think I have the thing figured out OK now. Manythanks to you who helped.

José