Mounting a second drive automatically/how does mount work under "places"?

**protargol** · June 30th, 2009

So I'm trying to have a second partition mount automatically upon bootup. Right now, I manually have to go to "Places" and then click on the drive for it to mount to it's location (/media/disk). My question is what is/are the commands that are run when I click on the unmounted drive under places?

/media/disk does not exist until I mount the drive this way, and so I'm not able to put

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/dev/sde5       /media/disk     ext3    0 2

into my fstab file. Also, after I mount the disk using places, the timestamp for the last edit of /media/disk is in the past, so I don't think that it's being created (as in mkdir disk) everytime. Any tips?

**nandemonai** · June 30th, 2009

Originally Posted by protargol

So I'm trying to have a second partition mount automatically upon bootup. Right now, I manually have to go to "Places" and then click on the drive for it to mount to it's location (/media/disk). My question is what is/are the commands that are run when I click on the unmounted drive under places?

/media/disk does not exist until I mount the drive this way, and so I'm not able to put

Code:

/dev/sde5       /media/disk     ext3    0 2

into my fstab file. Also, after I mount the disk using places, the timestamp for the last edit of /media/disk is in the past, so I don't think that it's being created (as in mkdir disk) everytime. Any tips?

You could manually create the mount point if that's where you want it, then add the /etc/fstab entry?

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