[Lancaster] Technical question

[Ken Walton]

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! :-)
>
>
>


-- 
Ken Walton