Automount partition at bootup using UUID in Ubuntu 7.10

[Faun]

Here is a tutorial to mount your drive partitions using UUID (even if u change the label and swap ur hard drives this thing will not change). The UUID of a particular partition changes only after format/deletion of that drive.

Step by step approach:
Step 1 (Create a directory in media folder to mount the desired partition)
use this command

sudo mkdir /media/dld

Here dld is the directory on which I want to mount sda6 partition





Step 2 (Find out UUID of the desired partition sda6)
use this command to find out UUID

blkid

or sudo vol_id /dev/sdxx or ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid




Step 3 (Open fstab file inside /etc directory)
use this command to open fstab file

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Step 3 (Edit you fstab file to include the partition sda6 to mount on dld)
include this line (assuming the partition is NTFS)

# dld
UUID=C21477C91477BECB /media/dld     ntfs   defaults,force,umask=007,gid=46 0       1

Do the same for other partitions

[indian_samosa]

Thanks man ... I was looking for just a tut like this.Just starting out with ubuntu ...

[Faun]

^^anytime

[praka123]

in ubuntu "vol_id" also reveals UUID

[Faun]

yup and one more command i dont remember too reveals UUID

post updated

[Quiz_Master]

Gr8 one.. Didn't knew this..
(still a lin n00b I am hehe )

Thanks.. (I grabbed this tut from your blog though)

[Faun]

^^actually formatting in blog is a lil difficult so i first post here then just copy/paste there