Month: July 2010

Mounting a drive in fstab so that it gets auto mounted on boot

/ Harish Srinivas / Leave a comment

  1. In a terminal type blkid, this shows the drive name to UUID mapping. note down the UUID of the drive you want mounted at boot.
  2. As root create a folder called Local Backup in /media
  3. change ownership of the folder created in the step above to the user that logs in (IRIS9)
  4. edit /etc/fstab and paste the line below after modifying the appropriate UUID and paths to the folders 
     UUID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx /media/Local40Backup ntfs defaults 0 2
  5. space in path top folders can be escaped by using 40
  6. save the file and then type sudo mount -a. check if the drive is mounted.