How to remember a mount point

Question

I am using Red Hat Enterprise 6.3 and I have just mounted a new volume in one folder of my preference.

After reboot that mount point was lost and the volume was mounted at his original place.

In which place I can set my mount call so that I can have my volume always at the same place? Do I have to look at init.d or is there a better place?

/etc/fstab is the file where you should add all your mounts so that after reboot it gets mounted again. — Abhishek Anand Amralkar, May 23 '13 at 16:30

score 11 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '13 at 16:33

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/etc/fstab is the traditional configuration file to define permanent mounts.

edited May 23 '13 at 16:33

jscott

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answered May 23 '13 at 16:31

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 02 '23 at 17:30

Elaborating more on the @NickW's solution, a general way to add a new entry to the /etc/fstab file is the following:

check the UUID of your device with blkid command:

sudo blkid

Output should be of the following type:

...
/dev/<DEVICE>: UUID="<DEVICE-UUID>" ...
...

Knowing the UUID of a device, append a new entry to the bottom of /etc/fstab file, (followed by a new line, to avoid warnings):

# /dev/<DEVICE>  <-- comment to identify what you mounted
UUID=<DEVICE-UUID>    <MOUNT-POINT>   auto    rw,user,auto    0    0

Double check /etc/fstab ! In case of a mistake you would have to recover your system!
Reboot ensured that everything is fine :)

How to remember a mount point

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