[How To] Automount Hard Drive Partitions Everytime You Login to Ubuntu Linux
Hello people,
This is Bharath Ram. I wanted to share with you an information I just found. This indeed solved my problem so I thought it would solve yours too.
In ubuntu (and may be in other distros) every time you login you never get your drives auto mounted (don’t you?). This is a real pest especially when you would have set your wallpaper from an external drive or some other reason you want to use external drives for.
I have just found out a solution for this problem. That is no big deal but a small software called “pysdm”. It was there for me in the ubuntu repositories but i seriously don’t know about other distros. Install this software and if necessary open it after install (alt+f2 -> type “pysdm” -> enter) and in the options there say to automount your partition(s) at startup. Now the drives of ur hard disk will be mounted whenever you login. You won’t have to manually/using computer mount them.
Hope this helps
P.S-Please post your comments if you need any help or if this has helped you out!
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Why no just add the partition to the /etc/fstab file? Thats what I do.
UsingThere are many ways to accomplish something……..
the above mentioned is only one way……
you dont necassarily have to do that…..
Besides, people who feel that opening and editing a file is a boring work or people who have zero knowledge of what fstab is and all can use pysdm. it costs you nothing to install a light weight component
Usingby the way, pysdm does the same /etc/fstab editing so not much diference
UsingSo this is basically a GUI front end to fstab. I’ve been looking for something like this. I’ve not had much good luck with editing configuration files. Last time edited xorg, I ended up killing the screen. Nice article, thanks
Usingno probs………..
infact i m glad that my article helped another person
Using@Binny Editing /etc/fstab is not everyone’s cup of tea [it is mine though
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Using Google Chrome 0.2.149.30 ongud point sahtya…….
Using[...] I’d posted on auto-mounting partitions at startup using pysdm. This post shows how you can do so by making use of mount [...]
Usingthank u for the information.
UsingI have Ubuntu under vista, so I don’t have this problem
keep up ur good work
I will be a regular reader of ur blog
So this is gui only? Not command line?
UsingI tried running it from the command line, ooops!
Sorry, I find this software gives me permission issues - it’s not easy and for some reason I never have permission to ’sudo’ mount or unmount filesystems.
From command line or ALT F2 prompt run gksudo pysdm
watch it though, make sure you have fstab backed up and be prepared to clean up and edit further afterwards. One thing pysdm does well is to put all the UUID information in for you.
UsingHey Ben………
The software can b opened thru the Menu:
System->Administration->Storage Device Manager
Or try making a shortbut for itin desktop
command: “gksu pysdm”
I think such softwares shud hav enuf security since they
Usingdeal with system files