trouble mounting disks in Ubuntu

[Pondlife]

Recently installed Ubuntu 8.10 and am struggling to get it to auto mount two partitions
I've added the following to /etc/fstab
UUID=xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx /media/disk1 ext3 relatime 0 0
UUID=xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx /media/disk2 ext3 relatime 0 0

with the correct UUIDs of course but they still won't mount. I've tried adding them to /etc/mtab but that just gets reset with each reboot.

If I remove the lines I can mount them manually from the file browser but I'd rather it was automatic at boot.

Any ideas?

TIA

PL

[lilelvis2000]

Have you tried the "defaults" option in place of relatime.

and after the boot finishes, what happens if you try

mount -a

?

[Pondlife]

Fixed it now.

I had to create the directories manually to be used as mountpoints first.

Thanks anyway

[lilelvis2000]

Yeah, that's how its done in Unix/Linux.

I was going to mention that...but thought...naaaahh he must know that!

[Pondlife]

Yeah, that's how its done in Unix/Linux.

I was going to mention that...but thought...naaaahh he must know that!

You'd think!

Problem was, every time I mounted them via the GUI it creates the dirs automatically so I didn't realise they weren't there.

Still, all working now.

Cheers anyway.