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I have two hard-drives (one internal and one external) that I want to mount on start up (ntfs, but it doesn’t matter).

I can mount them fine with the "Disk Utility" aplication and I can mount them fine with the comands

/usr/bin/udisks --mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/21318E3E64707B4D

/usr/bin/udisks --mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/6439FB1D652606C4

respectively (I followed this tutorial; https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticallyMountPartitions#Per-User_Mounts and used the Per-User Mounts).

But when I put these commands, separated by a semicolon, in the Startup Application to run on startup, it only mounts one of the partitions (always the same one). Why is this and how to fix it?

(At first I tried to have each mounting-command as a separate "startup program" but then the start-up program removed one of the programs, leaving me with only one mounted hard drive...)

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Thank's in advance!

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To mount hard drives on startup, you need to edit the /etc/fstab file. Just open the file in your favourite editor(be sure to use sudo)

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

and add the appropriate lines for your hard drives

UUID="UUID here" /mount/point filesystem-type defaults 0 0

Just put in the UUID, mount point and filesystem type. See this for more info.

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