Question

Jackson wants to automatically mount a secondary internal hard drive when his Linux workstation boots up. In which files should he configure an entry for the partition on the drive that he wants to mount?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

"This should work

Look at the output of df. It will tell you the device for your external drive:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda3 446G 36G 388G 9% /

udev 1.9G 4.0K 1.9G 1% /dev

tmpfs 750M 888K 750M 1% /run

none 5.0M 8.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock

none 1.9G 4.7M 1.9G 1% /run/shm

/dev/sdb1 58G 17G 39G 30% /media/external

Then add an entry to /etc/fstab (use sudo pico /etc/fstab for instance):

/dev/sdb1 /mount-point/you-want ext4 defaults 0 0

"ext4" should reflect the actual filesystem on your drive. Don't know it? look at output from "mount" to see the "type".

Once all this is done, as long as the drive is connected to the system when it boots, it should appear under the mount point you specified."