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Auto mounting vmware virtual disk on ubuntu startup

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http://askubuntu.com – 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? (HowTos)

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