How to fstab

[spaceboy909]

Hi guys. Found a typo in your options list.

The correct line should read:

dev/nodev - Interpret/Do not interpret character or block special devices on the file system.

Reference: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Fstab

[MilesTEG1]

Hello,
I use ubuntu 8.04, and I have two nfts partition witch are detected and functionnal with read/write support, but they are not mounted at boot.
I suppose that they use ntfs-3g to have write support.
To acces those partitions, I have to clic on the partition's name in the menu "Shortcut" near "System" menu. Then, the partition is mounted, and can be accessed through the desktop or the file navigator.

I want to mount automaticaly at boot one of these partition.
She mounted in /media/STOCKAGE

Here the fstab :

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sda6
UUID=6523d9ef-e07a-48bf-86cb-a8328e2fcaa5 /               ext3    relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/sda8
UUID=f59fedf2-decb-4622-be68-2e73e88a0f64 /home           ext3    relatime        0       2
# /dev/sda7
UUID=dc8a3772-1364-46b6-b19b-121bab521a27 none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0


## usbfs is the USB group in fstab file:
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=125,devmode=664 0 0

And here the mtab :

/dev/sda6 / 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
procbususb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 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/2.6.24-16-generic/volatile tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/sda8 /home ext3 rw,relatime 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,devgid=125,devmode=664 0 0
securityfs /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/pierrick/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,user=pierrick 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/STOCKAGE fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/SYSTEME-HP fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
gvfs-fuse-daemon /root/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0

I don't know how to auto mount at boot or startup the STOCKAGE partition.
Can someone help me ?

Thanks
Miles

[mssever]

Hello,
I use ubuntu 8.04, and I have two nfts partition witch are detected and functionnal with read/write support, but they are not mounted at boot.
I suppose that they use ntfs-3g to have write support.
To acces those partitions, I have to clic on the partition's name in the menu "Shortcut" near "System" menu. Then, the partition is mounted, and can be accessed through the desktop or the file navigator.

I want to mount automaticaly at boot one of these partition.
She mounted in /media/STOCKAGE

You didn't specify what type of drive you're dealing with, but assuming it's a partition on an internal hard drive that isn't going to change partition numbers, the following fstab line should get you started. These are the options I use. You may need to change them to fit your situation (I'm guessing from your signature that your locale is French, not English).

/dev/sda5     /media/STOCKAGE     ntfs-3g     defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8     0     1

[willoconley]

Thanks OP, finding disk ID's was exactly what I needed

[thotmos]

Hi there!
exactly what is the effect of turning the pass column in vfat partitions from 1 to 0 ? the last time I did it boot time improved but windows keeps running the check utility as if the machine was improperly shut down

[paulo21]

Congratulations,

It's a very thorough tutorial. Very useful.

Thanks in advance.

[Daverobb]

I've read through this post a few times aznd still can't figure out why my usb drive doesn't show in xubuntu 7.10. It reads it:

lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 067b:2506 Prolific Technology, Inc. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

but it says it doesn't have a valid partition table:

sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for flor:

Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2432 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe21ae21a

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        2037    16362171    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            2038        2407     2972025   83  Linux
/dev/hda3            2408        2432      200812+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5            2408        2432      200781   82  Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table

any advice?

[mssever]

I've read through this post a few times aznd still can't figure out why my usb drive doesn't show in xubuntu 7.10.

It appears that your drive is corrupt. Does it work on another system?

[Daverobb]

I'll check on another computer.

[bodhi.zazen]

you can write a partition table with fdisk

sudo fdisk /dev/sda

just go ahead an manually add in the partitions, just use your post for start and end of partitions.

Alternately try testdisk.