Re: [newbie] Persistent mount

2004-01-31 Thread Paul
On 01/31/2004 01:09 PM, Andr Tapxure Gabriel wrote:

Hi there
I want to know how to make the system mount automatically some volumes...
When the system starts, it mounts the Windows disk automatically...
 

You need to edit /etc/fstab for that. Only root can do that, so you need 
to 'su' first.

Paul

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Re: [newbie] Persistent mount

2004-01-31 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 31 January 2004 08:48 am, Greg Meyer wrote:

-You can use diskdrake in MCC to set up the mount points for you and mount
 the -partitions, just be careful not to change any partitions or format
 anything. -At the end, it will ask you if you want to write the changes to
 fstab, just -say yes, and they will mount at boot next time.

or you can issue a mount -a (as root/su) and they will start up now. :-)

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Re: [newbie] Persistent mount

2004-01-31 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 31 January 2004 17:35, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
 On Saturday 31 January 2004 08:48 am, Greg Meyer wrote:

 -You can use diskdrake in MCC to set up the mount points for you
 and mount the -partitions, just be careful not to change any
 partitions or format anything. -At the end, it will ask you if you
 want to write the changes to fstab, just -say yes, and they will
 mount at boot next time.

 or you can issue a mount -a (as root/su) and they will start up
 now. :-)

but not automatically next time you boot.  It has to be written into 
fstab for that.

Anne
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