Mount storage partition automatically?

[aem0512]

I'm setting up a Lubuntu 12.10 system for my friend and I'd like to have the ntfs storage partition automount at startup, but at the moment it's requiring you to click on it in pcmanfm and put in the password.

I checked the options for pcmanfm and it says it should be automounting volumes at program start but it isn't mounting these other partitions.

Anyone know how to do this?

thanks!

[papibe]

Hi aem0512.

The simplest way would be to create an entry on the file /etc/fstab

Take a look at this tutorial for the details.

Let us know how it goes.
Regards.

[MrZorg2012]

Hi aem0512.

The simplest way would be to create an entry on the file /etc/fstab

Take a look at this tutorial for the details.

Let us know how it goes.
Regards.

Yeah, read that, it's still all greek.

[aem0512]

Yeah, read that, it's still all greek.

My sentiments exactly...sigh...

[papibe]

I would gladly guide through the process.

Could you post the result of these commands?

cat /etc/fstab

mount -l

df -h

sudo fdisk -l

sudo lshw -C disk

Regards.

[MrZorg2012]

I would gladly guide through the process.

Could you post the result of these commands?

cat /etc/fstab

mount -l

df -h

sudo fdisk -l

sudo lshw -C disk

Regards.

root@larrys:/home/larry# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=db09de44-235a-4544-a33d-2e46ff4fd38a / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=135fd3e1-fb91-4dd7-80ec-41577b1d0ba9 none swap sw 0 0
root@larrys:/home/larry#
root@larrys:/home/larry# mount -l
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/larry/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=larry)
/dev/sr0 on /media/larry/Lubuntu 12.10 amd641 type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8, mode=0400,dmode=0500,uhelper=udisks2) [Lubuntu 12.10 amd64]
root@larrys:/home/larry#
root@larrys:/home/larry# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 65G 8.9G 53G 15% /
udev 1.7G 4.0K 1.7G 1% /dev
tmpfs 690M 816K 690M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 1.7G 72K 1.7G 1% /run/shm
none 100M 24K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sr0 699M 699M 0 100% /media/larry/Lubuntu 12.10 amd641
root@larrys:/home/larry#
root@larrys:/home/larry# sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 74.4 GB, 74355769344 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9039 cylinders, total 145226112 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000c3471

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 137887743 68942848 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 137889790 145225727 3667969 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 137889792 145225727 3667968 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf41be56d

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb2 206848 42004479 20898816 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb3 42004480 488396799 223196160 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
root@larrys:/home/larry#
root@larrys:/home/larry# sudo lshw -C disk

With sdb3 as being my storage partition on extra drive

[papibe]

Ok.

Let's try to make a manual test before making it permanently.

Create a mount point:

sudo mkdir /media/MyStorage

Mount the partition:

sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sbb3 /media/MyStorage

Now browse the directory /media/MyStorage to make sure everything is OK.

Unmount the partition:

sudo umount /media/MyStorage

If all went well, please post the result of this command to finally proceed to create the mount point on /etc/fstab

sudo blkid

Regards.