permanent disk mount in 8.10
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Fri Nov 7 18:27:21 UTC 2008
On 11/07/2008 08:40 AM, Rashkae wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>
> Search this list for subject: "How do I permanently mount my 137 GB HD
> to my Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop" started on Oct. 30th.
>
> There were several great suggestions made for GUI programs that can do
> this, and I provided instructions for manually modifying /etc/fstab.
>
http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/pysdm
sudo apt-get install pysdm
After install it will appear in System|Administration|Storage Device
Manger. It's a GUI for mounting drives in fstab.
Added info is here:
http://pysdm.sourceforge.net/
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