How to mount a second partition on start up?

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Albert Wagner <albertwagner at cox.net> wrote:
> 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
>

No, but

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

can help determining the UUID of the partition to be mounted.

L.

-- 
L M Nicolosi, Eng.
Ubuntu AMD64
GNU-Linux Regist. User #481505 - http://counter.li.org/