[SOLVED] partition (auto)mount

[Sain]

I don't know is it just me, or KDE or whatever, but I never seem to get partition mounting properly under kubuntu...

Anyway, I have Kubuntu and Windows on my machine, each on its own partition. And I also have shared Fat partition on which I keep most documents....

Basically it mounts ok, but I need to explicitly click on icon for partition to mount. Can't it automount at computer start?? Cause now Amarok can't access my song library before I click on partition, and wallpaper at startup won't load because it's on that shared partition...

Before you ask; heres output of some commands...


sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8d9e98b4

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 5354 43005942 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 6631 6723 747022+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 6724 14593 63215775 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda4 5355 6630 10249470 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order



cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda4
UUID=3afa7527-90b6-44fc-b259-53f03b7be30c / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
# /dev/sda1
# /dev/sda3
# /dev/sda2
UUID=4d0caa74-84ca-11dc-8235-a1976958ae8d none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0


df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
varrun 1014M 156K 1014M 1% /var/run
varlock 1014M 0 1014M 0% /var/lock
udev 1014M 48K 1014M 1% /dev
devshm 1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm
lrm 1014M 38M 977M 4% /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/volatile
/dev/sda3 61G 55G 6.1G 90% /media/DOCS

It shouldn't be too hard, right? :)

[gkrules]

first type this in in the terminal

gksudo gedit /etc/fstab
at the bottom add this

/dev/sda3 /media/[put wat u want the drive to be called here w/o parenthesese] vfat defaults 0 0

oh and if u ever want another drive to automount thats fat32...just change the sda3 to watever...like if its sda5 jus change it to sda5

[quelx]

Try these steps



sudo vol_id /dev/sda3
sudo mkdir /mnt/windows

copy the UUID string and paste it into a new line in /etc/fstab

sudo nano -w /etc/fstab
make the line look something like this

UUID=pasteth-eout-****-fvol-_idhereokay? /mnt/windows vfat user,auto,rw 0 0

ctrl-x to save and exit
do this (next reboot it will automount)

sudo mount /mnt/windows
you will need to point amarok and whatever other apps use that partition to /mnt/windows

[Sain]

Both solutions worked for my problem, but now I cannot write to the partition... :-/

EDIT: To be precise, I can! But only if I open it as Root.

[gkrules]

yea its because of ubuntu's priveleges
theres prolly a way to bypass it but im not sure
i hav a ntfs data partition and im using a program that automatically mounts and allows me to write to it

[Sain]

I've used these attributes in fstab for my partition


vfat owner,auto,uid=1000,gid=100,async,rw 0 0

Now it works fine. I guess you just need to play with fstab until you get it right.

[axor1337]

my advise is to create a backup of all data on shared partition and re format it as ntfs (may need to be done from windoze) then from ubuntu load ntfs support from add/remove and load data back. the ntfs support tool has a easy gui tool to auto mount the ntfs part. had both hardy and gutsy work really well with ntfs as does widoze.