Automatic mount a Disk Drive Partition at Boot Time/Start up

To do it you need to edit /etc/fstab.

Run Terminal by pressing CTRL+ALT+T.

Type the following command to open fstab on Text file/gedit.


sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Now add the following line to mount a ext3 formatted partition at the end.

/dev/sdb1    /media/mountdsk   ext3    defaults     0        2

And add the following line to mount a FAT32 formatted partition.

 /dev/sdb1    /media/mountdsk   vfat    defaults     0        2