How to mount a second partition on start up?

[Tom H]

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:50 PM, 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?
>
> Perhaps you know why
> # ~
> # blkid -o value -s UUID /dev/sda1
> # ~
> doesn't return anything

What's the output of "wipefs /dev/sda1"?