How do I activate my sdb5 partition and have it stay active continually.

[Steven Vollom]

> and you should see if and where your partitions are really mounted.
Am I that dense, Nils, it looks to me like it is on /media.
steven at Studio25:~$ mount
/dev/sdb1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.24-22-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sda5 on /media/sda5 type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda7 on /media/sda7 type ext3 (rw)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc 
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/sda1 on /media type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
steven at Studio25:~$

What do these entries mean?
(noexec,nosuid,nodev)

Steven