You could double-click the drive icon in the GUI and Ubuntu would mount and open a drive window but I needed to automatically mount a data partition so media players can access the drive.
Make the destination with
> sudo mkdir /media/data
Copy fstab before editing
> sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak
Edit fstab adding the new mount point (using vfat for fat32)
/dev/sda3 /media/data vfat defaults 0 0
(SEE BELOW FOR PERMISSIONS NOTE)
Run command to refresh fstab
> sudo mount -a
To see mounted partition
> df -k
Ubuntu puts a drive icon on the desktop for the drive...
PERMISSIONS NOTE (Added 2008-06-22):
Previously clicking icon in "Computer" mounted drive with full permissions. I finally got around to copying data over with the fstab mount and realized drive was RO! Came up with the following solution for fstab entry:
/dev/sda3 /media/data vfat user,rw,exec,umask=000 0 0
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