Ultrabay hard drive and Ubuntu 7.10

[Superego]

I recently did some hard drive swapping on my T60p to use a second HDD in the ultrabay. The ultrabay drive is where I keep all of my documents and misc. stuff. My issue is that when I boot up Ubuntu the ultrabay drive, root/sudo access is required to mount the drive. I don't have any issues with mounting the drive, it's just annoying to have to either use the command line or Nautilus every time I boot up.

What do I need to do in order to have my ultrabay drive mounted automatically? I'm a little hesitant to change fstab without some advice. Thanks.

[whizkid]

Change fstab.

Your story is a little confusing. If you boot the ultrabay drive, the ultrabay drive won't mount?

But yes, fstab is the file used to automatically mount partitions, so that's the correct tool.

We should meet! I have a T60, like Fedora, and live in Saint Paul. PM me.

[Superego]

Whizkid,

Sorry if I confused you, (probably because I was little confused myself) but I did manage to resolve my problem. To clarify, the ultrabay drive would mount, it's just that the only way I could mount it was via Nautilus, as that was the only way I could locate and identify the ultrabay drive (it's visible in Places in Nautilus).

After doing some poking around I found that my windows partition (on my main drive) was being mounted to /media/sda1, and the actual device was /dev/sdb1; my ultrabay drive was being mounted to /media/ULTRABAY but the device was /dev/sda1. I was getting confused because I couldn't find where in /dev my ultrabay drive was. I never thought to look at /dev/sda1 because I thought that was my windows partition. To add to my confusion, fstab was using UUID to identify each drive/partition, and I was expecting something like /dev/sda etc. After some more digging I figured out how to find the UUID for each drive. After that editing fstab wasn't as bad as I thought. So, problem solved and thanks for the help.