[ubuntu-uk] Configure Ubuntu to automatically mount all volumes at boot or login

[Liam Proven]

On 13 March 2012 15:28, Andy Braben <andybraben at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 13 March 2012 15:14, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Reposted from Ubuntu-users, where nobody was able to even give me a
>> pointer. Anyone here got any ideas?
>>
>> This used to be the default behaviour, IIRC.
>>
>> I keep a lot of non-critical stuff on a FAT32 volume shared with
>> Windows. I have put it into /etc/fstab manually; this worked at first,
>> but for some reason, it keeps mounting RO & I have to do a `sudo
>> umount /dev/sdb6` command to unmount it, then use Nautilus to remount
>> it for all users as RW.
>>
>> What I'd rather like is the way Ubuntu /used/ to handle this in years
>> gone by: to just automatically mount all visible drives at boot time.
>>
>> I've Googled but I can't find an easy way of achieving this. Is there one?
>>
>> BTW, I don't mean to add them to /etc/fstab; I mean to just mount all
>> visible volumes, even when these change.
>>
> Local partitions are listed in Nautilus and just clicking them mounts them.

Yes, but that means that, for instance, Dropbox and my Bittorrent
client fail with errors at startup, because they can't find the drives
they need to access.


> Network volumes I have bookmarked, so that just selecting the bookmark
> mounts it.

Yes, me too  - about a dozen times each, since every time the server's
IP changes via DHCP, Ubuntu can't find the old one and makes a new
one. I've not bothered configuring an internal DNS server so I can't
use names - broadcast resolution doesn't work.

> Mounting all visible drives at mount time should be an easy setting, but I
> wouldn't necessarily want it to be the default, as not everyone would have
> that requirement.

I believe it *used* to be, AIR. I don't expect it still to be, I'd
just like to set it back the way it was.

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