auto mount partition at login

[mistrynitesh]

Hello all once again!
I installed kubuntu 8.10 sometime ago... and now I want it to mount a fat32 partition on login. I edited my /etc/fstab file and added this line at the end

# /dev/sdb6
UUID=xyz	/media/newdisk	vfat	detaults,auto,users,exec,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=000	0	0

but couldn't succeed (This line works perfectly well on Ubuntu 8.04 installation on this computer).
Now, it doesn't even mount after logging in (earlier, after logging in, I would start dolphin and click on the partition - it would ask me for the password and then mount the partition). It gave me the following error at the bottom of dolphin window

An error occurred while accessing 'NewDisk', the system responded:
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.PermissionDenied
Device /dev/sdb6 is listed in /etc/fstab. Refusing to mount

Then as suggested by dibl on this post (http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3099199.0), I added directory '/media/newdisk' but still I get the same error.

When I try to mount from Konsole (sudo mount /dev/sdb6) it gives me this error:

wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb6,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

Can anybody tell me whats wrong here?

[Snowhog]

Re: auto mount partition at login

These are the two fstab entries I have for my two vfat drives:

UUID=100B-2074 /media/USB_60G vfat defaults,user,umask=000,relatime 0 2
UUID=1BD7-0D75 /media/PCMCIA_5G vfat defaults,user,umask=000,relatime 0 2

Both are available after boot.

Change your fstab entry to reflect what I have after the mount points. Note that the very last entry is a 2 not a 0. Within fstab, this is important. The only partitions/devices that should have option 0 (last entry) are /proc and any non-HD devices - CD/DVD Roms and Floppy drives. All other fstab ext3 partitions should have option 2 as the last entry, except for the root partition, which should have option 1 as the last entry.

If you want to learn more about how to use fstab, visit How to fstab by bodhi.zazen (Ubuntu Forum Staff member).

[mistrynitesh]

[Solved] auto mount partition at login

Edited the line. Now it looks like this

/dev/sdb6  /media/newdisk   vfat   defaults,user,auto,relatime   0    0

and it works now! I guess the option 'relatime' worked, but I didn't see this anywhere mentioned in the howto's that you suggested or the others that I read earlier. What is this option about?

Also I kept the fsck pass at '0' since I didn't want Kubuntu to check this partition at boot up. Do you think its necessary?

Thanks!