New install: How do I set up fstab to automount 2 ext3 partitions?

[marcelo danico]

I did a clean install of 8.04. Now my old home folders are on 2 ext3 partitions.
I've mounted them and tried out my files, everything is good.:)
Now I need to know what to enter into /etc/fstab to automount sda7 and sda5.

daniel@daniel-desktop:/home$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for daniel:

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00007077

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1706 13703413+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1707 2080 3004155 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 2081 9729 61440592+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 4591 8293 29744284+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 8294 9714 11414151 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 2081 4590 20161512 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 9715 9729 120456 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order


I already used mkdir for /home1 and /home2 folders in /mnt

so to automount and get unrestricted access (777?) to the files in the partitions what do I enter to fstab?

[EXCiD3]

Pretty straightforward. Something like:

/dev/sda5 /mnt/home1 ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda7 /mnt/home2 ext3 defaults 1 1

Also read up on fstab so you know what you are doing. An excellent reference: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

[marcelo danico]

Thank you.