[clug] Kubuntu startup

Brett Worth brett at worth.id.au
Tue Aug 30 20:05:54 MDT 2011


On 31/08/11 09:20, Keith Sayers wrote:
> 	I run a system with two hard drives - one for systems software and the other for
> data.  The former carries Kubuntu 10.4 and it would obviously be handy if I could
> automagically mount the data drive on startup.  I have found and ticked the 'Enable
> automatic mounting of removable media' systems option but now have to enter the root
> password to get past the Splash screen - could anyone suggest a way to obviate that,
> please?

Is this drive really removable?  If not then you could just add an entry to the /etc/fstab 
file.  The "man fstab" command will describe what the various fields mean.

Brett

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