How to mount a second partition on start up?

[Albert Wagner]

On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 02:02 -0200, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 
> -- 
> L M Nicolosi, Eng.
> Ubuntu AMD64
> GNU-Linux Regist. User #481505 - http://counter.li.org/
> 
Perhaps you know why 
# ~
# blkid -o value -s UUID /dev/sda1
# ~
doesn't return anything