How do I activate my sdb5 partition and have it stay active continually.

[Steven Vollom]

On Saturday 03 January 2009 3:31:54 am Jonas Norlander wrote:
> cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sdb1
UUID=2795cc01-0df3-4b4d-b46c-0adf8156e4aa / ext3 
nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
# /dev/sda1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=bddaaee3-408a-4f69-a9bf-b9c47af61b7e /media/sda5 ext3 
nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2
# /dev/sda7
UUID=e8dac51b-91a9-43ab-9d75-cb4d6af8efa3 /media/sda7 ext3 
nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 2
# /dev/sda8
# /dev/sda6
UUID=8bb9d04a-5d6e-45bf-9753-cfb6f585b2f3 none swap sw 0 0
# /dev/sdb2
UUID=09850bc0-ac07-4f45-bb39-1eba22243e4d none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/scd1 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/sdb5 /media/sdb5 ext3 owner,atime,noauto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media ext3 owner,atime,noauto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
steven at Studio25:~$                                            


steven at Studio25:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for steven:

Disk /dev/sda: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x47a447a3

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        1824    14651248+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2            1825       24792   184490460    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5           16523       24792    66428775   83  Linux
/dev/sda6            1825        2006     1461852   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7            2007       16522   116599738+  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xffffffff

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1        2591    20812176   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2            2592        2856     2128612+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3            2857        9964    57095010    5  Extended
/dev/sdb5            2857        9964    57094978+  83  Linux
steven at Studio25:~$ 

This sure is fun.

Steven