[WYLUG-help] "lost" hdd

[John Hodrien]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Mike Goodman wrote:

> I have now added two lines for hda into fstab, so it now reads:
>
>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
>> #
>> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
>> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
>> /dev/hda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
>> /dev/hda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
>> /dev/hdb1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
>> /dev/hdb5       none            swap    sw              0       0
>> /dev/hdd        /media/cdrom0   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
>> /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0

Ouch, that's not right.  You've set the mount point wrong.  That should read:

/dev/hda1     /mnt/hda1   blah-blah-blah

if you want it to be mounted at /mnt/hda1.  Don't leave it like that, you
could cause havoc on a reboot.

jh

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