How to automatically mount partitions at boot? (Solved)

[rob.mac]

Greetings fellow users,
I've been using puppy for about a month now, and I am starting to run out of room on my main partition due to music I've transferred from my other computer.

So I was wondering, is there a way for me to mount the other partition?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, especially with some step-by-step instructions .

Thanks,
Rob.

[davids45]

G'day,

There are a few ways to mount a partition/drive or two during booting Puppy.
One method is to create and put a short executable file into /root/Startup that reads something like:

#!/bin/sh
mount -t ext2 /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3
mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb5 /mnt/sdb5

I called my file "mount-at-boot" as I want these two partitions (sda3 and sdb5) auto-mounted as they have my e-mail data, bookmarks and other stuff for Seamonkey, wine fonts, etc.

I also add lines to two files in other directories to be reasonably sure to get these partitions auto-mounted during boot.

To /etc/fstab, via ROX, I open this as text then I add a line (say, to mount sda3):
/dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3 auto defaults 0 0

To /etc/rc.d/rc.local, I open as text then add:
mount /dev/sda3

Save and close each file.

I sometimes need to re-boot a couple of times to get these partitions to display as mounted. I may have to actually access the partition manually for it then to be automatically mounted on re-boot.
But once it works, it has always been OK.

Search the forum for posts on auto-mounting or mounting during booting, for perhaps better or other information. This was how I found out how to do this.

David S.

[disciple]

Weird. I just put this as a script in /root/Startup, and it works well for both my windows and linux partitions:

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#!/bin/sh
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt/sdb3
mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt/sdb5
mount /dev/sdb6 /mnt/sdb6

[rob.mac]

Thanks!
It worked perfectly!

But shouldn't there also be a script that unmounts the partitions also? Or does it automatically do that?

[disciple]

Puppy automatically unmounts everything at shutdown/reboot.

[rob.mac]

alright
Thanks a lot

[Sylvander]

Thanks to davids45, it worked 1st time.

Now I can move my Mozilla files onto the auto-mounted partition.

[tmm2112]

Very much a noob, but I don't know how to make a script executable.

[Puppus Dogfellow]

Very much a noob, but I don't know how to make a script executable.

in rox, right click > (change) permissions.

someone will probably be along to tell you how to do it from the terminal as well.

[tmm2112]

someone will probably be along to tell you how to do it from the terminal as well.

Sorry to sound so stupid, but what is "rox" and where do I find it?

[tmm2112]

OK, so I found out that rox is just he file system. I clicked permissions, got a "+" and clicked the script. clicked the script and set permission. didn't work.

[Puppus Dogfellow]

someone will probably be along to tell you how to do it from the terminal as well.

Sorry to sound so stupid, but what is "rox" and where do I find it?

OK, so I found out that rox is just he file system. I clicked permissions, got a "+" and clicked the script. clicked the script and set permission. didn't work.

rox is the default file manager in puppy. if you're looking at a file (and didn't install any additional file managers yourself), you're doing so through rox.

right clicking "permissions" on that script disciple wrote gives me a popup with four options--cancel, no, yes, quiet. either of the last two (the green buttons) will affirmatively answer the question the box is asking:

Change permissions of 'mnt/(whatever name and location)'?


...i don't get the screen you describe so that's all the advice i can give. if you've done it correctly (and haven't messed around with the default colors), the name of the script will now appear in green letters.


some of this is very unfamiliar at first. don't sweat it.

[tmm2112]

Weird. I just put this as a script in /root/Startup, and it works well for both my windows and linux partitions:

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#!/bin/sh
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt/sdb3
mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt/sdb5
mount /dev/sdb6 /mnt/sdb6

I think I noticed something. My script is very similar to this, but with only one drive mounted. At bootup, the drive appears mounted for a second or two, then it goes away. At least that's what the GUI symbols suggest. A green circle appears then disappears. So I must be missing something that keeps the drive mounted.

[bigpup]

tmm2112,

At bootup, the drive appears mounted for a second or two, then it goes away. At least that's what the GUI symbols suggest. A green circle appears then disappears. So I must be missing something that keeps the drive mounted.

What exactly is the drive partition you want to be mounted?
Partition on hard drive, USB drive, CD/DVD, what?

[tmm2112]

What exactly is the drive partition you want to be mounted?
Partition on hard drive, USB drive, CD/DVD, what?

Sda2. It is a partition on the hard drive. Sorry, I thought I had stated that somewhere.

[gcmartin]

Hi @Tmm2112. These instructions might help.

You indicate that you have already created a script of some name; say, you may have called it "your-mount-scriptname". Further you believe you have made that script "executable". The following instructions should help verify that you have done so properly.

1. Open a terminal
2. Position your terminal so you can see the drives icons on the bottom of your screen
3. unmount the sda2 device

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   # umount /dev/sda2

4. Change to the directory where you added the script; should have done so here.

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   # cd /root/Startup

5. watching the icons below, Execute your script

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   # ./your-mount-scriptname

6. If it does execute, it will cause the sda2 icon to show it is now mounted. Otherwise, you may see some messages indicating why your script may not be working

Hope this helps