How to automount internal harddrives on boot

[philidox]

Its not a big deal but everytime I reboot my computer I have to under "Places" and select a my hard drive in order to mount them on my desktop. How to I enable this automatically so I can don't have to do that anymore.

[ilrudie]

Its not a big deal but everytime I reboot my computer I have to under "Places" and select a my hard drive in order to mount them on my desktop. How to I enable this automatically so I can don't have to do that anymore.
The file that controls static volumes is /etc/fstab. Locate the line for the drive and see if it has a noauto option. It also may be commented out (lines beginning with # are comments) If it does not appear in the file you will need to create an entry for it. If you don't know how post back and I can help you create the proper entry.

[philidox]

The file that controls static volumes is /etc/fstab. Locate the line for the drive and see if it has a noauto option. It also may be commented out (lines beginning with # are comments) If it does not appear in the file you will need to create an entry for it. If you don't know how post back and I can help you create the proper entry.

I don't mind doing it the with cli but isnt there a gui program that will do it for me? Here is my fstab output

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/host/ubuntu/disks/root.disk / ext3 loop,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/host/ubuntu/disks/boot /boot none bind 0 0
/host/ubuntu/disks/swap.disk none swap loop,sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

[ilrudie]

Looks like its not in the fstab file. You will need to add it. In order to add it you will need to know the block device (/dev/<something>), the filesystem type (probably ntfs or fat32 if its a windows disk or ext3 if its a GNU/Linux disk) and a path to where you want it (/media/<drive_name> if you want it to show up on your desktop).

To find the block device run a df -kh after mounting it from places. It will show you all mounted filesystems, their usage and mount point. Post the line that contains the disk you want to mount.

[earthmeLon]

Hey! This should be easy to fix, and you'll learn a little about how mounting works :D

Once you've started the computer and you've manually mounted your drive, open a terminal and run:


mount

This will display all of your currently mounted drives. For example:


/dev/sdb1 on /media/Boomer type fuseblk

This shows you what the drive is, and where it is currently being mounted to. Fuseblk and ntfs/ntfs-3g are all NTFS partiton types, which is what your partition probably is if it was created with Windows. Now, open your /etc/fstab and append the following entry:

To Open

gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

What to add

/dev/sdb1 /media/Erebus2 ntfs-3g rw,user,auto 0 0

Save the file and on next boot, it should be all good :D

Note:
* You need to change ntfs-3g to whatever partition type you are mounting :D

* This will mount the drive so that any user has access to it (unless you set permissions otherwise)

[the lush]

Hi, these instructions are pretty clear, however my insecurity is also pretty intense. In response to the mount query I find my drive:

/dev/sda2 on /media/Drivename type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096)

I therefore assume that in the fstab thing I need to add

/dev/sda2 on /media/Drivename fuseblk rw,auto,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4 096

I am using 8.04.

Thanks in advance for any help with this.