Adding other partitions and remote images to /etc/fstab

[pwabrahams]

Is there a utility buried somewhere that provides a nice interface for adding entries to /etc/fstab for other partitions on the same machine and also for images on other networked machines? I can't find anything for that in Systems Settings, which is where I'd expect to find it. It is, of course, possible to do some of that during the initial installation -- but how about afterwards?

[vinnywright]

Re: Adding other partitions and remote images to /etc/fstab

well for other partitions on the box you could use system settings>removable devices
or they should show in dolphins places panel ware their just a click and password away.


the network drives depend on how their being shared I believe.

VINNY

[pwabrahams]

Other partitions ain't removable

Yes, there does seem to be something for handling the other partitions under "removable media" -- a misleading label since they aren't removable. And I can't find anything there for naming the mount points.

[vinnywright]

Re: Adding other partitions and remote images to /etc/fstab

Yes, there does seem to be something for handling the other partitions under "removable media" -- a misleading label since they aren't removable. And I can't find anything there for naming the mount points.

the mount points will be handled automatically by hall/dbus .

and added to /media

as if you clicked it in dolphin's places panel it get's added to /media/disk ....... for me

VINNY

[pwabrahams]

Renaming the mount points

Is there a way to rename the mount points to more meaningful names, other than by editing /etc/fstab?

Maybe this will clear up after a reboot, but it required root permission to access one of those partitions.

[Snowhog]

Re: Adding other partitions and remote images to /etc/fstab

You can, after the partition has been mounted, change the ownership to user:root where user is your user name. This then avoids the prompt for your password when the partition is accessed [read:mounted].

As an example, if my external USB HD, which is not listed in /etc/fstab, is accessed via Dolphin, and gets mounted to /media/disk-1, then I open a console and type:

sudo chown paul:root /media/disk-1

Now, anytime that I access this HD, it gets mounted with me as the owner, and root as the group. I have full access to it, and am not prompted for my password.

[ubuntuku]

Re: Renaming the mount points

Is there a way to rename the mount points to more meaningful names, other than by editing /etc/fstab?

There is, it's called pysdm

sudo apt-get install pysdm

[Yuri sss]

Re: Adding other partitions and remote images to /etc/fstab

You can try out Partitionmanager - just install the package of the same name. It allows you to manage your partitions, change the mount points etc.

[pwabrahams]

Networked filesystems

How about networked filesystems? pysdm doesn't seem to have any facilities for them. That seems to be one of those things that Windows handles better than Linux.