Mounting my EHD, editing Fstab

[Phil Sexton]

Tony Corbett wrote:
>  i need to mount an ext hard drive, can anyone advise how to edit fstab?
> 
> ie how to login as root
> 
> and then would this be the corrct edit for fstab
> /dev/sda        /usb   ext3                    auto     0       0
> and advise on the mount command
> 
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sudo nano /etc/fstab

Or, you can set a root password:

sudo passwd

Then you can su - and login.

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