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Originally Posted by Sourav.dubey View Post
Hello everyone
I just tried to create a new partition of ext3 filesystems but mess up in between. First I resized MyDocs to 20 Gb and resized /home to 4 gb and created a new ext3 partition of 5gb using GParted
...
mmcblk0p4 is the partition I created using Gparted
and when I did
mount /dev/mmcblk0p4
cannot find /dev/mmcblk0p4 in /etc/fstab

please help how can I mount it and see it in the filemanager
Why do you think you messed up?
Looks quite OK. Can you give output of
sfdisk -l

BUT for sure you can not just type
mount /dev/mmcblk0p4
without having an entry in /etc/fstab
Where should this device be mounted? Which file system type? Which options?
You need to give all this info on each mount or put it into /et/fstab, like:
/dev/mmcblk0p2 /home ext3 rw,noatime,errors=continue,commit=1,data=writeback 0 0


Originally Posted by ade View Post
It is not possible to just add an entry in /etc/fstab.

You can find a description for your next step over here:
http://my.opera.com/bachkhois/blog/2...onal-partition
It is possible,
But please do not mess with /etc/fstab directly on creating. It will be recreated on every boot. If you fail, everything may fail.

So I have my own upstart script to mount my needs.
Just edit mountString and put it into folder /etc/event.d/ (remove txt ending).
After that you may easily use above short command.

Create a folder where you want that partition to be mounted (e.g. /home_2), then your mountString will look like
/dev/mmcblk0p4 /home_2 ext3 rw,noatime,errors=continue,commit=1,data=writeback 0 0
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