I can just nano /etc/fstab and add /dev/sda1?
Not only you can: you actually have to! :)
Check the Gentoo handbook for details. When I did install Gentoo (in
december 2004), I had to write *all* my fstab by hand, I don't know if
now it's different.
I thought fstab was
generated by the machine or something, and that it isn't a terribly
good idea to edit it.
A fstab file is ususally generated by the operating system installer,
but, being it a plain text configuration file, it is thought to be
editable by root. It has a pretty straightforward syntaxis.
The machine-generated thing you shouldn't touch, instead, is /etc/mtab.
This one contains the *current* state of mounted devices.
I don't have a /mnt directory. Should I just create one?
Well, you have to create an empty directory to use as a mountpoint. I
create them inside a /mnt directory, but that's just "historical habit".
Many distro I see around now use /media as a root directory for
removable media mountpoints. Nothing stops you from using
/home/sauron/whatever, although I feel symlinks are a cleaner way to
access mount points from your home...
No, I had to manually create a mount point via the GUI and then enable
the thing and all this stuff. Then KDE just looked at /media and
slapped that on my desktop. I mounted my windows partition (back when
I had one) on /media so that I could have that on my desktop too.
That's the same of writing on the fstab, but managed by a gui instead of
done by hand (editing fstab is really easy once you manage the logic of it).
m.
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