automatically recognizing/mounting partitions?

[kiroh]

Just edit your /etc/fstab, adding the keyword "auto" to the fourth column.

There's a good explanation of the file structure here:
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html


On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 10:30:39 -0500, David Feldman
<mailing-lists at interfacethis.com> wrote:
> Some Linux distros (as well as Mac OS X and Windows) automatically
> recognize partitions and connected hard drives at boot time and mount
> them, usually on the desktop and/or in some sort of Volumes directory.
> Is it possible to enable something like this in Ubuntu?
> 
> --Dave
>