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fstab: What Am I doing wrong? Dec 15th 2012, 19:14 I have an external drive that I have automatically mounted before, but this time I am having problems. Each time I make an fstab entry I can not boot to the desktop. Fortunately I backed up the original fstab so, I have been able to rm the bad one and cp the backup in the CLI. fdisk -l gives me this: Code: Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xd9aba86c   Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System /dev/sda1              63  1953520064  976760001  83  Linux Disk /dev/sdb: 150.0 GB, 150039945216 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 18241 cylinders, total 293046768 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00087d8a   Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System /dev/sdb1            2048    4208639    2103296  82  Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb2  *    4208640    46153727    20972544  83  Linux /dev/sdb3        46153728  288817151  121331712  83  Linux /dev/sdb4      288817152  293025791    2104320  82  Linux swap / Solaris It is the 1000.2 GB drive I want to mount. Then Parted gives me this: Code: linux-xxx:~ # parted GNU Parted 2.4 Using /dev/sda Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) print                                                            Model: ATA WDC WD10EAVS-00D (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number  Start  End    Size    Type    File system  Flags  1      32.3kB  1000GB  1000GB  primary  ext3        type=83 fstab looks like this: Code: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1500HLFS-01G6U1_WD-WXC0CA901217-part1 swap                swap      defaults              0 0 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1500HLFS-01G6U1_WD-WXC0CA901217-part4 swap                swap      defaults              0 0 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1500HLFS-01G6U1_WD-WXC0CA901217-part2 /                    ext4      acl,user_xattr        1 1 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1500HLFS-01G6U1_WD-WXC0CA901217-part3 /home                ext4      defaults              1 2 proc                /proc                proc      defaults              0 0 sysfs                /sys                sysfs      noauto                0 0 debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0 0 usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0 devpts              /dev/pts            devpts    mode=0620,gid=5      0 0 I have created a mount point: /mnt/teradrive, and this works: Code: mount /dev/sda1  /mnt/teradrive So I should be able to auto-mount by altering fstab like this: Code: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1500HLFS-01G6U1_WD-WXC0CA901217-part1 swap                swap      defaults              0 0 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1500HLFS-01G6U1_WD-WXC0CA901217-part4 swap                swap      defaults              0 0 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1500HLFS-01G6U1_WD-WXC0CA901217-part2 /                    ext4      acl,user_xattr        1 1 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1500HLFS-01G6U1_WD-WXC0CA901217-part3 /home                ext4      defaults              1 2 /dev/sda1  /mnt/teradrive  ext3 defaults 0 0 proc                /proc                proc      defaults              0 0 sysfs                /sys                sysfs      noauto                0 0 debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0 0 usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0 devpts              /dev/pts            devpts    mode=0620,gid=5      0 0 Right? One more question. The info on sda that Parted gives includes this - "Partition Table: msdos". Should I back up all the stuff on this drive and reformat it?

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