How to permanently mount 2nd hard drive?

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#1

Hi,

I’m running OpenSUSE 11.1. I have OS installed on first harddrive (SATA). I have a lot of data on 2nd hard drive (also SATA).

Each time I boot up, 2nd hard drive is mounted as HDNAME[+] in Media. So, today it might be listed as "HDNAME".

If I shutdown and reboot, the “" character will get appended to the name, so the new 2nd hard drive will be called "HDNAME___”.

The next reboot, one more character will be added, “HDNAME______”, and so on.

How do I permanently mount the 2nd harddrive so it is registered and has a permanent name/location. I’d like to be able to create shortcuts from the OS to the 2nd harddrive. If the name changes each boot, this obviously isn’t going to work.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
GOLEM

#2

Use the Yast – System → partitioner to mount it. That will be a permanent mount. Put the path to the mount directory in the slot labeled Mount Point.

Actually, if it’s a FAT32 or NTFS (windows) drive, let me know cos that’s a bit more complicated.

#3

Thanks swerdna. Yes, its formatted NTFS so I can easily read/write data when booting into the Windows partition (for games of course – still playing Valve’s Left4Dead right now).

Wuold I still use Yast -> System -> Partitioner?

Thanks for followup on this.

#4

Probably better to add a custom line into the fstab file. Like this for full read/write access if drive is internal:

/dev/sda2    /path_to/mount_point    ntfs-3g    defaults    0 0

or this if the drive is external:

UUID=F028603828600048    /path_to/mount_point    ntfs-3g    defaults    0 0

You can get the UUID from this command:

sudo /sbin/blkid -L

More here: HowTo Mount NTFS Filesystem Partition Read Write Access in openSUSE 10, 11
and here (for uuid): HowTo Mount NTFS Partitions Read Write in Ubuntu Kubuntu

#5

It’s an internal drive. I read through your HowTo Mount NTFS doc and updated FSTAB with defaults as suggested. Everything works perfectly.

Thanks… (and you can close this question if thats possible)