Re: How to add a mount point in fstab?
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
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> On 07/06/08 19:46, hce wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>> On 07/05/08 18:34, hce wrote:
>>>>> On 7/4/08, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 07/04/08 00:47, hce wrote:
>>>>>> > Hi,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > 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.
>> Is this your only internal (including optical) SATA drive? Maybe
>> your CD/DVD drive is IDE?
>>
>>> I am not clear the internal hardware structure, it is an Acer ASPIRE
>>> 5920 laptop.
>
> This should help:
>
> $ lspci | grep AHCI
>
> A little Googling shows that it has a SATA HDD.
Please see following lspci:
/sbin/lspci | grep AHCI
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM
(ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM
(ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0121
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 58
I/O ports at 1c00 [size=8]
I/O ports at 18d4 [size=4]
I/O ports at 18d8 [size=8]
I/O ports at 18d0 [size=4]
I/O ports at 18e0 [size=32]
Memory at f0704000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit-
Queue=0/2 Enable+
Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [a8] #12 [0010]
>>> I added a line of "/dev/sda6 /hom/project/work ext3
>>> defaults,noauto,user=project 0 0" to the fstab, but it was actually
>>> not working, there was an error of "bad line in fstab" during boot
>>> (the user is project). Was it the problem as you concerned that kernel
>>> could not see it?
>
> See it? No. But, rather, that Linux does not "hard code" SCSI
> devices. So, if you have multiple SATA, USB or FireWire devices,
> what today is sda might, the next time you boot, be sdb.
>
> Of course course, if you only have 1 SATA device, this all becomes moot.
Not sure above indicated 1 SATA device?
Was the error of the "/dev/sda6 /hom/project/work ext3
defaults,noauto,user=project 0 0" syntax error, or the /dev/sda6 of 1
SATA device?
Thank you.
Jim
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