Mounting partitions

[James Bensley]

Not infront of my pc right now so can't give u a great answer, but
have you gone back and looked at your fstab to see if the entry has
been moved into there?

I use fstab for entries to partions that are to be mounted at system
start up, every time.

If u say, plug a usb drive in for temporary usage it won't appear in fstab.

If you google it, you should be able to fine the answer quite easily.
The line you put in mtab isn't far off what the fstab entry would be.

On 4/2/10, alan duval <amoht at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> I have installed a larger 500G HD, and used Gparted to make 4
> partitions.
> Partition 1 for Ubuntu9.04
> Partition2 for Swap
> Partition3 for Home
> Partition4 for Virtual operating systems
>
> I then transferred Ubuntu and my Home partition from my smaller disk to
> the larger using Acronis.
> However Ubuntu then couldn't mount the new Virtual partition. Message
> said
> "Can't find sda7 (my virtual partition) in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab".
> I looked at fstab but didn't know what values to put for sda7.
> I then opened mtab and it looked simpler, so I added the line:
> /dev/sda7 /Virtual ext3 rw,relatime 0 0
> which is similar to the line for sda6
>
> This then loaded my Virtual partition in the media folder and I am able
> to use it but I notice that the line I inserted in mtab has disappeared.
>
> Although this works I doubt that I have followed accepted practice.
>
> Could someone enlighten me as to the correct procedure for mounting a
> partition which is not shown in fstab or mtab?
>
> Alan
>
>
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