Get the Blockid of the hard disks
[email protected]:~$ sudo blkid
[sudo] password for droidzone:
/dev/sda1: LABEL="Windows7" UUID="10909D8B909D77C4" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: UUID="f3606d11-5fbc-4d31-846a-cc812e4cd53f" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="4cc50c11-af2a-4352-8dfa-c967deed997a" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sr1: LABEL="UDF Volume" TYPE="udf"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="WindowsXP" UUID="E6BCC858BCC82541" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb2: LABEL="Windows8" UUID="94C0680DC067F440" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb5: LABEL="STORAGE" UUID="642C-370E" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sdb6: LABEL="userdata" UUID="3ad6396d-9ab2-4435-a850-e03501810734" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb7: LABEL="gentoo" UUID="f8960404-f785-464e-9c43-06777c679153" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb8: UUID="ca39c78d-85ee-4db1-8589-45beb6cc62e8" TYPE="swap" [/code]Create the mount point for the disk
sudo mkdir -p /hdd/windows7[/code]Edit /etc/fstab as root
kdesudo kate /etc/fstab[/code]# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=f3606d11-5fbc-4d31-846a-cc812e4cd53f / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=4cc50c11-af2a-4352-8dfa-c967deed997a none swap sw 0 0
# swap was on /dev/sdb8 during installation
UUID=ca39c78d-85ee-4db1-8589-45beb6cc62e8 none swap sw 0 0
UUID=10909D8B909D77C4 /hdd/windows7 auto user,rw,auto,exec,nobootwait 0 0[/code]The line added is:
UUID=10909D8B909D77C4 /hdd/windows7 auto user,rw,auto,exec,nobootwait 0 0[/code]Joel G Mathew, known in tech circles by the pseudonym Droidzone, is an opensource and programming enthusiast.
He is a full stack developer, whose favorite languages are currently Python and Vue.js. He is also fluent in Javascript, Flutter/Dart, Perl, PHP, SQL, C and bash shell scripting. He loves Linux, and can often be found tinkering with linux kernel code, and source code for GNU applications. He used to be an active developer on XDA forums, and his tinkered ROMS used to be very popular in the early 2000s.
His favorite pastime is grappling with GNU compilers, discovering newer Linux secrets, writing scripts, hacking roms, and programs (nothing illegal), reading, blogging. and testing out the latest gadgets.
When away from the tech world, Dr Joel G. Mathew is a practising ENT Surgeon, busy with surgeries and clinical practise.
