Fstab Config for External Hard Drives?

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Mon Apr 20 15:40:44 UTC 2009


> 
> Okay, I don't know how many different ways you will find to ask this,
> but here is one way to add these drives to /etc/fstab :
> 
> /dev/sdc1    /directory/where/you/are/now/mounting    vfat
> rw,hard,intr	0	0
> /dev/sdb1    /directory/where/you/are/now/mounting    ntfs-3g
> rw,hard,intr	0	0
> /dev/sdd1    /directory/where/you/are/now/mounting    ntfs-3g
> rw,hard,intr	0	0

That will not work as you have written it, as you cannot mount three 
different partitions to the same mount point. Instead, you need to make 
make sure "/directory/where/you/are/now/mounting" is different in each 
of the three lines.

Chris




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