How to mount a second partition on start up?

Lucio M Nicolosi lmnicolosi at gmail.com
Mon Jan 10 04:02:43 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Albert Wagner <albertwagner at cox.net> wrote:
> Using Ubuntu 10.10. I have another partition that contains only data
> that persists between different OS installations. I have replaced the
> standard data folders in ~ with links to corresponding folders in the
> data partition, e.g. ~/Documents is actually a link
> to /media/data/Documents. Everything is OK if the very first operation
> is mounting the data partition. What is a good method of having the
> system mount the data partition automatically on startup?

Perhaps an additional line in /etc/fstab?


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