[maxmelbin]

how do make all partitions to mount automatically in Linux , red hat

[tsunam]

you need to go into your /etc/fstab file and add what you want there
do a #man fstab if you are unsure as to what you need to add, the format is fairly easy to follow though

[usr_208]

red hat, you will have to do it manually, if you want them to mount automatically, try something like SuSe out. it mounts for you. also i think Mandrake does if you look in /mnt/ they are already there. but mounting on your own is much better.

[tsunam]

Red hat can mount it automatically usr...its in the fstab file...fstab is loaded automatically when you boot into linux. If you have the partition in the fstab file it will mount the drive automatically (as long as you have it configured right)...then you just have to cd to wherever you told it to mount..and it will be miraciously there.

[saikee]

Loading a Suse can take anything between 1/2 to 3/4 hours. Tsunam suggested route of amending the fstab takes minutes.

[usr_208]

ok well if you mean automatically on each boot up after you set up the fstab file then yeah, of course i knew that. i just meant that suse automatically mounted any partitions you have period. so does mandrake. but the good thing is, i dont want all my damn partitions mounted right of the bat, so red hat lets you add them where you want em.

[saikee]

I think in Suse the partitions are named as Data1, Data2, Data3 ....etc. It can be one heck of a mess to tell one from the other as I have 10 distros plus Xp in mine. Newer distros tend to be keen to mount every partition. Knoppix doesn't seem to miss anything out.

[maxmelbin]

thanx guys , i will try editing the /etc/fstab file
hope i find out how to add the new lines by man .....
another help .. how do u get a list of all partitions in red hat ....
in Solaris these partitions will be listed under /dev/rdsk , cannot find anything similar here...
Regards
Max

[saikee]

fdisk -l

[usr_208]

i did this for my two mounts.

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/save vfat auto,users,umask=0003,uid=500,gid=500 0 0
/dev/hdb2 /mnt/files ntfs auto,users,umask=0003,uid=500,gid=500 0 0

can't get the ntfs to work yet even though i patched the kernel w/ kernel-ntfs-2.4.20-31.9.i686.rpm

[usr_208]

nevermind. fixed it. i rebooted. and then noticed that the /mnt folder i had put them in belonged to the root and not my user. so i changed permissions.

[root@HOUSE jason]# chown -R jason:jason /mnt


man linux rocks when you get it right

[maxmelbin]

i am still waiting for it to rock ....
i am slowly moving to linux' s dreamworld

[tsunam]

Glad that you are moving into the linux mentality max. It is a amazing OS if you are willing to give it the time to learn. SInce you do start over from basically square 1

[comprookie20]

Or you could do mount /dev/hda1 or whatever when you wanted it mounted,takes a second.