I can't seem to get fstab to work. What do you type
exactly?

I've tried :

root@slackware:~# fstab
-bash: fstab: command not found
root@slackware:~# cd /etc
root@slackware:/etc# fstab
-bash: fstab: command not found
root@slackware:/etc# fstab /dev/hda3
-bash: fstab: command not found
root@slackware:/etc# fstab --help
-bash: fstab: command not found
root@slackware:/# whereis fstab
fstab: /etc/fstab /usr/include/fstab.h
/usr/man/man5/fstab.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/fstab.5.gz
root@slackware:/# cd /usr/include
root@slackware:/usr/include# fstab
-bash: fstab: command not found
root@slackware:/usr/include# cd /
root@slackware:/# cd usr/share/man/man5/
root@slackware:/usr/share/man/man5# fstab
-bash: fstab: command not found
root@slackware:/usr/share/man/man5#

-Mike
--- Jim <jnantz2@216-19-216-108.getnet.net> wrote:

> 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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