Re: Mounting a drive at start up

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 10:22 -0800, Leslie Jordan wrote:
> How do I get my system to mount a drive during boot up? This hard
> drive will always been there. The command I use to mount it manually
> is 
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /data

Add a line to /etc/fstab:

    /dev/hda2   /data    vfat   defaults   0 0

When the system does a "mount -a" at startup, it'll mount.

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