/media/disk as the mount point? [SOLVED]

[rfakhrai]

I just recently upgraded from 6.06. I have two harddrives; 1 is my / drive (/dev/sdb1) and the other is a backup drive (/dev/sde5).

In 6.06 I set the fstab so my backup drive would mount to /mnt/ but now, if I mount /dev/sde5 it asks for su password and mounts magically to /media/disk.

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>  <type> <options>    <dump> <pass>
proc      /proc      proc  defaults    0    0
# /dev/sdb1
UUID=0b27cf52-1d02-4ed8-a2a5-d27662694626 /        ext3  relatime,errors=remount-ro 0    1
# /dev/sdb5
UUID=bd38c6cc-c33a-4664-825e-bfb0ca7aa05d none      swap  sw       0    0
/dev/scd1    /media/cdrom0  udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0    0
/dev/scd0    /media/cdrom1  udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0    0
/dev/fd0    /media/floppy0 auto  rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0    0

As you can see, there's no entry for /dev/sde5 in my fstab and when I tried to put it in there manually, I received the error that '/media/disk does not exist'.

My mtab:

/dev/sdf1 / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
varrun /var/run tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755 0 0
varlock /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
devshm /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
lrm /lib/modules/2.6.24-23-generic/volatile tmpfs rw 0 0
securityfs /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
/dev/sde5 /media/disk ext2 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uhelper=hal 0 0

This is my mtab with /dev/sde5 already mounted (to /media/disk). Automatically, an mtab entry is created for something that doesn't exist in fstab! I'm confused by this new way of handling mount points in 8.04. Can somebody please help?

I'd like to be able to have /dev/sde5 mount consistently at the right point, automatically, and without su priveleges needed.

Thanks,
Reza

[Snowhog]

Re: /media/disk as the mount point?

Run blkid to identify the UUIDs of each partition. It's 'safer' to identify partitions in fstab by UUID than by direct /dev/xxxx notation. Specifically, as how drives are enumerated (now) is different than it was.

[rfakhrai]

Re: /media/disk as the mount point?

I'm unsure what the blkid command does. blkid -h doesn't seem to be of much assistance. what sort of input is it looking for? And, will entering the harddisk UUID really solve my problem if the error seems to be in the mount point?

Thanks,
Reza

[Snowhog]

Re: /media/disk as the mount point?

As you can see, there's no entry for /dev/sde5 in my fstab and when I tried to put it in there manually, I received the error that '/media/disk does not exist'.

Yes, that would be an issue. If you desire to have ready access to this partition 'after boot,' you need to add an entry for it in fstab.

[rfakhrai]

Re: /media/disk as the mount point?

as I went on to explain in my initial inquiry, I did try to enter it in fstab as /dev/sde5 on mount point /media/disk. The resulting error was that "mount point /media/disk/ does not exist." Am I missing something?

Thanks

[Snowhog]

Re: /media/disk as the mount point?

Yes. /media/disk is 'dynamically established - it doesn't exist until, as you have things, you desire to mount the partition. You can fix this by creating the mount point. Open a console and type:

sudo mkdir /media/disk

Then your fstab entry for the partition will work.

[rfakhrai]

Re: /media/disk as the mount point?

excellent! thank you.

[Snowhog]

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