I'm trying to follow these instruction to mount a second hard drive:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingANewHardDrive
For automatic mount at boot it says I need to enter this into the terminal:
sudo nano -Bw /etc/fstab
Then:
Add this line to the end (for ext3 file system):
/dev/sdb1 /media/mynewdrive ext3 defaults 0 2
Add this line to the end (for fat32 file system):
/dev/sdb1 /media/mynewdrive vfat defaults 0 2
I'm not really sure what file system I am working with. I'm also not sure what it means to add the line to the end. End of what?
This is a screen shot of what happens when I type in "sudo nano -Bw /etc/fstab"

Asked by boy
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Jun 9, 2016, 08:37 PM
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