Fstab Config for External Hard Drives?

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:40:44 +0100
Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> 
> > 
> > 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
> 

I am sure glad you pointed that out. Now how about actually helping the
individual? If he is already mounting these manually, I think the
information is correct, thinking about it. Don't you?

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