How to mount a second partition on start up?

[Albert Wagner]

On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 03:04 -0200, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Albert Wagner <albertwagner at cox.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 02:02 -0200, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Albert Wagner <albertwagner at cox.net> wrote:
> >> > Using Ubuntu 10.10. I have another partition that contains only data
> >> > that persists between different OS installations. I have replaced the
> >> > standard data folders in ~ with links to corresponding folders in the
> >> > data partition, e.g. ~/Documents is actually a link
> >> > to /media/data/Documents. Everything is OK if the very first operation
> >> > is mounting the data partition. What is a good method of having the
> >> > system mount the data partition automatically on startup?
> >>
> >> Perhaps an additional line in /etc/fstab?
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> L M Nicolosi, Eng.
> >> Ubuntu AMD64
> >> GNU-Linux Regist. User #481505 - http://counter.li.org/
> >>
> > Perhaps you know why
> > # ~
> > # blkid -o value -s UUID /dev/sda1
> > # ~
> > doesn't return anything
> >
> 
> No, but
> 
> ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
> 
> can help determining the UUID of the partition to be mounted.
> 
Thank you.  That works just fine.