Fstab Config for External Hard Drives?

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:39:53 +0100
Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:40:44 +0100
> > Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > 
> >>> Okay, I don't know how many different ways you will find to ask
> >>> this, but here is one way to add these drives to /etc/fstab :
> >>>
> >>> /dev/sdc1    /directory/where/you/are/now/mounting    vfat
> >>> rw,hard,intr	0	0
> >>> /dev/sdb1    /directory/where/you/are/now/mounting    ntfs-3g
> >>> rw,hard,intr	0	0
> >>> /dev/sdd1    /directory/where/you/are/now/mounting    ntfs-3g
> >>> rw,hard,intr	0	0
> >> That will not work as you have written it, as you cannot mount
> >> three different partitions to the same mount point. Instead, you
> >> need to make make sure "/directory/where/you/are/now/mounting" is
> >> different in each of the three lines.
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> > 
> > I am sure glad you pointed that out. Now how about actually helping
> > the individual? If he is already mounting these manually, I think
> > the information is correct, thinking about it. Don't you?
> 
> No, I don't agree as it happens. Putting what you wrote in fstab
> would not work as the OP clearly wants it to, which is to have all
> drives mounted at once.
> 

Thank goodness this OP knew what I meant, then. He did not seem to have
the same difficulty understanding as you.

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