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Auto mounting vmware virtual disk on ubuntu startup

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How do I mount a vmware vmdk file as /home on startup?

I have been using Ubuntu as a VMWare Guest. All My data resides on a single vmdk disk, which I mounted as /home in the VM using fstab. Now I want to move to an actual Ubuntu installtion for performance reasons (Installed with wubi under windows 7). I can mount my vmdk to a folder using vmware-mount (I have vmware server), but how do I go about mounting it to /home on startup?

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answered 2 Years ago bleger · Accepted Answer

Make the command you use to mount your disk, part of a bash script named say, customMount.sh. An example of such a script is:

#!/bin/bash

# File: customMount.sh

# Description: Mounts a partition on startup

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /home

Above script will mount /dev/sda1 (first physical partition on sda) to /home. Note: Replace it with your vmware-mount command.

Then run following commands:

Make customMount.sh executable

sudo chmod +x customMount.sh

Copy to /etc/init.d

cp customMount.sh /etc/init.d/

Change directory to /etc/rc5.d/ and make a link to the script as:

cd /etc/rc5.d

ln -s ../init.d/customMount.sh S20customMount.sh

Similarly, make another link in rc2.d as:

cd /etc/rc2.d

ln -s ../init.d/customMount.sh S20customMount.sh

Reboot Ubuntu and verify if the mounting is done by executing ls /home