[Lancaster] Technical question

john john at raystorm.co.uk
Sun Sep 3 17:42:34 BST 2006


Hi Ken

Add the following line: You may need to change file system type if you 
havent used reiserfs

/dev/hda1            /ubuntu               reiserfs   
acl,user_xattr        1 2

Should work

Cheers

John

Ken Walton wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> That sounded quite easy until I looked at /etc/fstab, then I was
> confused again. It looks like this; what do I have to add to make hda1
> mount?
>
> # Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
> /dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
> none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
> # Dynamic entries below, identified by 'users' option
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
> /dev/hda5 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom iso9660,udf noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy vfat,ext2 noauto,users,exec,rw 0 0
>
> On 9/3/06, john <john at raystorm.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ken
>>
>> If you add an entry to the /etc/fstab you can mount it automatically at
>> startup.
>>
>> Not sure about mounting the home folder in the mepis home.
>>
>> Whenever I upgrade OS's on my server, I always install the new one in a
>> new partition, and mount the old one in a directory called oldos. This
>> way I can get all settings etc before I trash it permanently.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> John
>>
>> Ken Walton wrote:
>>
>> > If you've been following the list, you'll know I'm giving MEPIS a test
>> > run at the moment. I have to say, I'm impressed with the speed. Every
>> > other Linux I've tried which uses KDE has been rather sluggish. This
>> > one is faster than Ubuntu using GNOME when it comes to opening
>> > windows, menus etc.
>> >
>> > Anyway, what I wanted to know is this. I've got MEPIS on partition
>> > hda3, and Ubuntu on hda1. If I do "mount /mnt/hda1" I can access the
>> > Ubuntu partition, but I have to do it manually. What I want to know
>> > is:
>> >
>> > 1) How can I get hda1 to mount automatically in MEPIS
>> > 2) Can I connect the home directory of hda1 to the filesystem in the
>> > home directory of MEPIS, so I don't have to wander quite so far to get
>> > to my documents?
>> >
>> > I'm pretty sure it's possible, but I just don't know how! :-)
>>
>>
>>
>
>




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