permanent disk mount in 8.10

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Fri Nov 7 16:15:34 UTC 2008


Rashkae wrote:
> pkaplan1 at comcast.net wrote:
>   
>> In prior releases there was a control system module that allowed one to define a location for permanently mounting a hard drive. This would allow me to create a symlink to point to a fixed location rather than having the drive living as a block device in /dev/xxx. The module is no longer in systemsettings. Is there a gui front end for doing this now? 
>> Paul 
>>
>>
>>     
>
> I'm a little confused by what you are asking.
>
> Do you want to know how to mount a filesystem at boot so you can symlink
> to the files contained on the hard drive, or do you want a method to
> give the hard drive a customized device name in /dev.
>
>   
    I think he wants to have a disk mounted by fstab at boot, but it 
seems he is not sure what he wants, or no-one wants to explain how to do 
that :-)

Karl


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