nicketynick;193935 Wrote: 
> Hi Pat,
> etc/fstab is where I looked first - but it didn't have any lines in it
> at all referring to the external drive mounts (/dev/sda1 & /dev/sda5) -
> it was only about 4 lines long, and only called out the internal drive
> partitions (hda1 & hda5, I think they were), which is what sent me
> looking for something else. The Ubuntu (Dapper Drake) automatically
> mounted the external drive (and both partitions, one NTFS, one FAT32)
> on start-up for me, so maybe Ubuntu has a slightly different setup than
> other Linux systems? Obviously I don't have a clue - I'm learning to
> swim in the deep end!

You may have to investigate udev rules.  Unfortunately that's as much
as I can tell you - but you did say you wanted to learn IIRC!  Try
google.


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