fstab not mounting partitions <sloved>

[Mike McMullin]

On November 10, 2010 08:24:24 pm Tom H wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Mike McMullin <mmcmullin at cogeco.ca> 
wrote:
> >>  I'm having some oddments with fstab not mounting partitions, details as
> >> follows:

  {snip}

> >> 
> >>   any idea as to why stuff is not mounting?
> > 
> > /mnt/oS11.3
> > /mnt/oS11.1
> > /mnt/WinVideo
> > /mnt/Win7
> > are commented out in /etc/fstab

  My bad, too much copy/paste with too little thinking about what that did.
Fixing those lines and doing sudo mount -all brought everything up the way I 
wanted it.  Thanks for the better eyes.

> Furthermore, if you uncomment "/mnt/WinVideo" and "/mnt/Win7", you'll
> have to replace "UUID-..." by "UUID=..." and "/dev/sda1" ("WinXP"
> label) and "/dev/sdb1" ("VectorLinux" label) don't have entries in
> "/etc/fstab".

  I'm not actually interested in having VectorLInux mounted it and WinXP are 
available under "Places".