Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu Disks

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Author: Vic
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu Disks
> I've never been any good on understanding how devices are mounted.

The short answer is that anything in /etc/fstab not marked as "don't
mount" gets mounted during startup (or whenever you issue the "mount -a"
command).

> The second disk is /dev/hdb.


Yes - but you don't want to mount the *disk*, you want to mount one or
more *partitions* on that disk.

> Is it as simple as editing the fstab file
> appropriately?


Yep.

Vic.