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How to make partitions mount at startup? 6 answers
\nI have recently installed a new hard drive to my Ubuntu 10.0.4 box. I used System -> Administration -> Disk Utils to format the disk (ext4 file type) – but did not create a partition (is this advisable?).<\/p>\n
I have manually mounted the drive as \/mydata.<\/p>\n
I want to have the machine automatically mount the device on startup\/reboot. How may I do this?<\/p>\n
[[Update]]<\/p>\n
This is the output from running sudo fdisk -l on my system:<\/p>\n
Disk \/dev\/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
\n255 heads, 63 sectors\/track, 60801 cylinders
\nUnits = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
\nSector size (logical\/physical): 512 bytes \/ 512 bytes
\nI\/O size (minimum\/optimal): 512 bytes \/ 512 bytes
\nDisk identifier: 0x000858bf<\/p>\n
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
\n\/dev\/sda1 * 1 59334 476595200 83 Linux
\n\/dev\/sda2 59334 60802 11789313 5 Extended
\n\/dev\/sda5 59334 60802 11789312 82 Linux swap \/ Solaris<\/p>\n
Disk \/dev\/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
\n255 heads, 63 sectors\/track, 60801 cylinders
\nUnits = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
\nSector size (logical\/physical): 512 bytes \/ 512 bytes
\nI\/O size (minimum\/optimal): 512 bytes \/ 512 bytes
\nDisk identifier: 0x00000000<\/p>\n
Disk \/dev\/sdb doesn’t contain a valid partition table<\/p>\n
Disk \/dev\/sdc: 16.0 GB, 16026435072 bytes
\n254 heads, 63 sectors\/track, 1956 cylinders
\nUnits = cylinders of 16002 * 512 = 8193024 bytes
\nSector size (logical\/physical): 512 bytes \/ 512 bytes
\nI\/O size (minimum\/optimal): 512 bytes \/ 512 bytes
\nDisk identifier: 0x00000000<\/p>\n
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
\n\/dev\/sdc1 1 1955 15641929 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
\nfstab
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there’s a disks utility in 12.04 … have a look you may find one in your version. It allows you to edit mount option on a partition there’s one for startup \u2013 Merlin Jun 21 ’12 at 15:51
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First of all your \/dev\/sdb isn’t partitioned. I am assuming this is the disk you want to mount.<\/p>\n
WARNING: THIS WILL DESTROY ANY DATA ON YOUR TARGET DISK
\nRun sudo fdisk \/dev\/sdb<\/p>\n
Press O and press Enter (creates a new table)<\/p>\n
Press N and press Enter (creates a new partition)<\/p>\n
Press P and press Enter (makes a primary partition)<\/p>\n
Then press 1 and press Enter (creates it as the 1st partition)<\/p>\n
Finally, press W (this will write any changes to disk)<\/p>\n
Okay now you have a partition, now you need a filesystem.<\/p>\n
Run sudo mkfs.ext4 \/dev\/sdb1<\/p>\n
Now you can add it to fstab<\/p>\n
You need to add it to \/etc\/fstab use your favourite text editor<\/p>\n
Be careful with this file as it can quite easily cause your system not to boot.<\/p>\n
Add a line for the drive, the format would look like this.<\/p>\n
This assumes the partition is formatted as ext4 as per mkfs above<\/p>\n
#device mountpoint fstype options dump fsck<\/p>\n
\/dev\/sdb1 \/home\/yourname\/mydata ext4 defaults 0 1
\nThen on the next reboot it will auto mount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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