On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 09:34:48AM +1000, hce wrote: > On 7/4/08, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote: > > > I have a partition in /dev/sda6 which is manually mounted to my user > > > directory ~/work every time when I start the x window. Is following > > > command correct to add /dev/sda6 in to the fstab? > > > > > > /dev/sda6 /hom/mycount/work ext3 0 0 > > > > > > You're missing the "options" field. Try this, where $YOU is your > > username: > > > > /dev/sda6 /hom/mycount/work ext3 defaults,noauto,user=$YOU 0 0 > > > > Changing topic: what ensures that the kernel will always see that > > device as sda, instead of sdb? > > The sda6 is actually a harddisk partition (not for usb stick). kernel > should have no problem to see it. You might want to search through the archives for all those cases were the device name *should* have stayed the same ;) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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