permanent disk mount in 8.10

[Rashkae]

pkaplan1 at comcast.net wrote:
> mount at boot (or kde launch) 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rashkae" <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> 
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
> Sent: Friday, November 7, 2008 11:09:31 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
> Subject: Re: permanent disk mount in 8.10 
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 

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There were several great suggestions made for GUI programs that can do
this, and I provided instructions for manually modifying /etc/fstab.