> You need a line for each partition, with the same information as is used > to build the mount command: > > /dev/[fat32 partition] /mnt/[some dir] cifs defaults 0 0 > /dev/[ext3 partition] /mnt/[some dir] ext3 defaults 0 2 > > You need the mount points ("/mnt/[some dir]" in the above examples) to > exist, be unique(!), and to have sane permissions. If the mount point > doesn't exist, the mount operation will fail. If the permissions are > too restrictive, you will have problems accessing or updating files. > > The "0 0" and "0 2" influence whether (and the order of) file systems > checks are done. You probably don't want a check done of the vfat > filesystem. > > If those file systems existed when you installed ubuntu, they may have > been detected by the installer, in which case it may have created > entries for them in /etc/fstab. I will check out /etc/fstab and modify it as above if needed - all the aforementioned partitions existed at the time of Ubuntu install, since that was the last OS I installed (Windows XP, Fedora 10, Ubuntu 9.04; in that order). So they should have been picked up by the installer (I chose the custom partitioning layout as otherwise it would mean replacement of the Fedora 10 installation). >> Another problem is that the 'fdisk -l' command returns no result >> (either as normal user or root user). >> > Odd. Does it return a non-zero value to the shell? Check with the > command sequence > fdisk -l;echo $? > > (I get a return value of 0, even after fdisk complains about /dev/md* > not containing valid partition table, while reporting both physical > disks, all the RAID metadevices, and detail of a USB key that is > attached to the PC) Here is what I get: for: fdisk -l;echo $? <blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">jaymist@LinuxUbuntu:~$ fdisk -l;echo $? 0 jaymist@LinuxUbuntu:~$ </blockquote><div> for: fdisk -l (nil output) <blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">jaymist@LinuxUbuntu:~$ fdisk -l jaymist@LinuxUbuntu:~$ </blockquote><div> AFAIK 'fdisk' should be part of the default bash shell commands. I alos tried looking into the Package Manager for fdisk related packages & installed them. But this also doesnt work. (Pict of the packages w/ fdisk is here: <a href="http://www.imagebam.com/image/6e9af244912194">http://www.imagebam.com/image/6e9af244912194</a>) Thanks, Jay </div></div>