Auto mount drives

[Jensen Somers]

Hi,

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:56, Chris Jeffries <chris at candm.org.uk> wrote:
> Request - short version.
> 1) how to have extra mount commands run at machine start up
> 2) how to format a command to mount an SMB network volume (Remote OS:
> Windows XP SP3) (is it possible by machine published machine name?
> currently I am using IP address)
> 3) how to automatically trigger a mount only when needed (deferred
> mount)
> OS: Ubunto 8.04
>
>
> Request - long version
> (to hopefully answer question that the above might prompt)
>
> I have been using Ubuntu as my main OS for about 6 months (8.04 Hardy)
> and for all practical purposes this is my only contact with Unix/Linux.
> I had been using Windows for much longer. I have been a systems analysts
> and programmer in the past, so I am happy reading manuals, just need
> someone to point me in the right direction.
>
> I have a couple of disk mounts that I would like to happen on machine
> start up, but I need some help in formatting the commands and knowing
> where to put them.
>
> One is an NTFS drive (the old Windows drive) (and should ALWAYS be
> there). I am OK formatting the mount command for this one, just need to
> know where to put it.
>
> The other is a network connection to a Windows share on another PC and
> may sometimes not be available. I have read the mount.cifs man page but
> I am a bit confused about passing it parameters via mount. For example,
> both have a user parameter, so how does mount know which is meant? In
> this case, I think I need help formatting the mount command, not just
> knowing where to put it.

All mounting related stuff goes into the /etc/fstab file. You can read
more, and find examples for NTFS and network drives, at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab. Normally this doesn't really
change between Linux distributions and versions, so any other manual
will get you going too.

>
> Finally, is there a way of automatically triggering a mount whn an
> attempt is made to access a file on the volume prior to it having been
> mounted. (i.e. a deferred mount option)
>
>

- Jensen