You'll need to put that partition in your /etc/fstab file.  Here's part of
mine.


/dev/hda5        swap             swap        defaults         0   0
/dev/hda1        /                ext3        defaults         1   1
/dev/hdb1	 /home		  ext2	      defaults         1   1

You should add to your /etc/fstab something like this.

/dev/hda3	/mnt/localbackup  ext2	      defaults	       1   1

/dev/hda3 is the partition you're talking about.
/mnt/localbackup is where you want it mounted.
ext2 is the file system type.  If you formatted the partition as ext3,
you'll need to put that in.  If you formatted the partition so windows
could read and write to it, you'll need to put vfat as the partition type.

I believe defaults means the partition is mounted with the default
settings for that partition type.  Maybe someone else can shed some more
light on this.

You're right about logging in as root.  You could do a lot of damage to
your system.

--
Del Boy for President.
http://www.ofah.net

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, mike hoy wrote:

> hi all,
>
> i recently formmatted some unused space on my hdd. and
> couldn't see it in linux, as i expected, by default.
> so i tried the following.
> mkdir /mnt/localbackup
> mount -t /dev/hda3 /mnt/localbackup
>
> it made the dir and after mounting the hda3 partition
> was finally able to access it
>
> but i have to mount it each time i reboot. i suspect
> you all know how to make this so i can always access
> the partition, when i setup slackware it made hda1
> (windoze.vfat.partition) always mounted.
>
> and i always log in as root so permissions don't seem
> to be an issue. oh and by the way I know that in
> theory i should not be using root user for normal
> everyday usage...
>
> mike!
>
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