On my fstab, I commented out all the examples from the example file. I added the following lines: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0 shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 /dev/hdd1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdd2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdd3 / ext3 noatime 0 1