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> I can just nano /etc/fstab and add /dev/sda1? |
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Not only you can: you actually have to! :) |
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Check the Gentoo handbook for details. When I did install Gentoo (in |
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december 2004), I had to write *all* my fstab by hand, I don't know if |
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now it's different. |
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> I thought fstab was |
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> generated by the machine or something, and that it isn't a terribly |
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> good idea to edit it. |
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A fstab file is ususally generated by the operating system installer, |
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but, being it a plain text configuration file, it is thought to be |
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editable by root. It has a pretty straightforward syntaxis. |
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The machine-generated thing you shouldn't touch, instead, is /etc/mtab. |
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This one contains the *current* state of mounted devices. |
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> I don't have a /mnt directory. Should I just create one? |
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Well, you have to create an empty directory to use as a mountpoint. I |
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create them inside a /mnt directory, but that's just "historical habit". |
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Many distro I see around now use /media as a root directory for |
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removable media mountpoints. Nothing stops you from using |
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/home/sauron/whatever, although I feel symlinks are a cleaner way to |
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access mount points from your home... |
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> No, I had to manually create a mount point via the GUI and then enable |
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> the thing and all this stuff. Then KDE just looked at /media and |
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> slapped that on my desktop. I mounted my windows partition (back when |
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> I had one) on /media so that I could have that on my desktop too. |
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That's the same of writing on the fstab, but managed by a gui instead of |
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done by hand (editing fstab is really easy once you manage the logic of it). |
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m. |
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