permanent disk mount in 8.10

[NoOp]

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/