mount problem (SOLVED)

[pookito]

Hi guys,


I am having a problem mounting a partition at the beginning of the login section of KDE 4.2. I decided to have a separate partition for my music videos and document files, in case that my OS gets damage, for one reason or another. But, when I log in to KDE I have to manually mount it. I know that there is a way of mounting the file system at the beginning of the section since I was able to do that with the Gnome environment. I downloaded a software and it worked. But, it does not do that with KDE. Is there something that I can do about it?


Let me know.



Pookito

[jankushka]

Re: mount problem

sure.

you can add an entry to /etc/fstab, so that the partition be mounted "system wide" with all the others.
that's the best way to do it.
there could be a gui to do this...i don't know.
i'm not good with guis.

we need to know what's the partition called.
from a konsole enter

blkid

and tell us which one is the partition in question

we need to see your /etc/fstab file.
from a konsole enter

cat /etc/fstab

finally, we need to know where you want that partition to be mounted.
i usually mount it under /multimedia or /usr/local/multimedia.

[pookito]

Re: mount problem

Here is the result of the command:


/dev/sda1: UUID="4937dfbb-44fd-4b01-96d1-c81c85c8a361" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda5: UUID="450f82c2-1712-4aa6-a3d8-75f0361685e9" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda6: UUID="c602b141-dae3-446d-9db7-b0deb21dccf7" TYPE="ext4dev"
/dev/sda7: UUID="f18543e7-9831-4b37-acf4-73cd2f834a56" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda8: TYPE="swap" UUID="ce567f60-b0dc-45a7-b85f-a6e223f475b7"
/dev/sda9: LABEL="Storage" UUID="64b82918-6ad1-4924-81ee-24614e5e637c" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda10: LABEL="Emergency or Tes" UUID="f0a1dee1-af36-4e8c-8c0f-f798ebddba99" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"

[jankushka]

Re: mount problem

alright.
i need the rest of the info in order to be able to help you.
cheers.

[pookito]

Re: mount problem

alright.
i need the rest of the info in order to be able to help you.
cheers.

the device that I was thinking to auto mount from the beginning is /dev/sda9

I think you were referring to the following information:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda7
UUID=f18543e7-9831-4b37-acf4-73cd2f834a56 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda1
UUID=4937dfbb-44fd-4b01-96d1-c81c85c8a361 /boot ext3 relatime 0 2
# /dev/sda8
UUID=ce567f60-b0dc-45a7-b85f-a6e223f475b7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sda9 /media/sda9 ext3 defaults

[pookito]

Solved

I think I got it working. I thank you for your time.


pookito

[jankushka]

Re: mount problem

well done.

it is safer to mount it using the uuid.
but the dev path will do.
or you can use the fs label, instead.
i do it like that.

and i'd suggest adding "0 3" at the end of the line.
this is for periodical checks.

your fstab entry would then look like this

# /dev/sda9 (storage)
UUID=64b82918-6ad1-4924-81ee-24614e5e637c /media/sda9 ext3 relatime 0 3

cheers