Auto-mounting internal drives

[Shishire Maiga]

So I've noticed when running Ubuntu that while my external drives will show up on my desktop when I turn the computer on, my internal drives don't. They were still accessible from the Places Menu, but they had to mount on the first click, and then I could open them. Obviously, this is not the desired behavior. So I did a bit of digging and I found the problem. HAL apparently tells gnome-volume-manager not to auto-mount internal drives. I found the file containing this policy, and fixed the problem.

The file is this one:

/etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi

To fix it so that internal drives will show up on your desktop when you boot up, change this line:

<merge key="storage.automount_enabled_hint" type="bool">false</merge>
to this:

<merge key="storage.automount_enabled_hint" type="bool">true</merge>

Then, reboot, and Voila!

[hummos]

It works.... great

[newbreed]

just tried...no success .. something about not having permission, how do I log in as root admin? in terminal I enter cd / ....thinking I'm in as root admin:confused:..sorry havent had a cup of beans yet. I warm up as the day goes by:)

[Shishire Maiga]

just tried...no success .. something about not having permission, how do I log in as root admin? in terminal I enter cd / ....thinking I'm in as root admin:confused:..sorry havent had a cup of beans yet. I warm up as the day goes by:)

It's ok, you shouldn't need root permissions, but if you do, then you can open a terminal and run:
gksudo gedit
and then once the text editor opens, use it to open specified file

[MyNameisTheStig]

thanks, this is a real help, I was looking to do this

I've done the file edit (needed gksudo gedit), now I'll sudo shutdown -r to test it

[MyNameisTheStig]

It works :)

big thanks :)