(Modified 2009 Jan 31)

I have two hard drives in my Xubuntu machine, one with the OS and one with data. Automatically mounting the second drive took a bit of fiddling.

Instructions:

• You should be root for the following steps. Type su or sudo -s rather than type sudo for each command
• Get partition name for appropriate disk:

  fdisk -l

• Get volume ID (for, say, /dev/sdb2):

  vol_id -u /dev/sdb2

• Go to /etc and copy fstab to a backup filename.
• Add the following lines to fstab:

  	# /dev/sdb2
  	UUID=1abcd234-5678-9112-e345-6fg7hi892123 /data           ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       2
  

  where the syntax for the columns is:

  	# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>

  The <pass> column sets in what order fs check is executed, where 0 signifies unchecked.

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