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Asked: 2011-08-18 07:21:09 +0800 CST

How can I mount a partition on every reboot?

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I have a partition mounted with mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /foo.

Each time I reboot, I need to remount. How can I keep this mounted after every reboot?

linux partition filesystems

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  1. Best Answer

    You need to make an entry in /etc/fstab for the mount, something like:

    /dev/sda3 /foo                       ext3    defaults        1 1

    For more information see:

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab

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  2. Sometimes, one may face critical issues due to /etc/fstab entries. So, the alternative is crontab.

    Just add below entry in root's crontab.

    $ sudo crontab -e

    @reboot mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /foo

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  3. For OpenSuse, coming from Novell Automatically mount a windows share at boot time with Linux

    //winserver/share /mnt/winshare cifs gid=users,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775,auto,username=john,password=johnpass 0 0

    Please add single quotes if the folder names contains spaces:

    '//winserver/share with spaces' '/mnt/winshare with spaces' cifs gid=users,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775,auto,username=john,password=johnpass 0 0

    Check the end of the article if you don't want to put passwords in fstab.

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