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

[Ignazio Palmisano]

2009/1/3 Steven Vollom <stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net>:
> 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

I'm not an expert in mount points, but this last line mounts sda1 as
/media; doesn't this cause problems with all the other volumes mounted
at points that are subfolders of /media? I would think, for example,
that the floppy would be inaccessible when sda1 is mounted.
HTH,
I.

> 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
>
>
>
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