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Questions about mounting filesystems automatically, either at boot time or when plugging in

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How to make partitions mount at startup?

How do you make HDDs and partitions mount at startup on Ubuntu? I always keep my media and data files on separate partitions - one 2tb HDD and a 400 odd gig partition. I have been trying to swap the default folder location for the home directory to…
Harley Baker
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Disable auto-opening nautilus window after auto-mount

Every time I plug a USB stick in, nautilus opens a new window with the contents of the drive. I would like to disable this auto-opening of the nautilus window, but I would like the actual auto-mount to keep working. Is this possible?
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How to automount NTFS partitions?

I have two NTFS partitions, and I don't want to mount them manually every-time I start Ubuntu. How can I do this? Is there a tool or a code to use? If so, is it safe to automount? specially when they are being used by another OS?
Binarylife
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How to mount a NTFS partition in /etc/fstab?

I have two partitions that I want to mount on startup: /dev/sda3 /mnt/devel ext4 defaults 0 2 /dev/sda2 /mnt/excess ntfs defaults 0 2 The ext4 partition mounts fine (owned by me, writable only by me), but the NTFS mounts owned…
Amanda
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How to disable automount in nautilus's preferences

I am using Ubuntu 11.10 (64 bits) and I do not want to mount automatically USB thumb drives in my system. I tried the command dconf-editor and gconf-editor but there isn't the icon to disable it in nautilus preferences…
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How to mount partition permanently?

I am using Ubuntu Minimal + LXDE. I am wondering how can I auto-mount a partition (internal) on boot automatically. Currently I do something like mount /dev/sda3 /media/works But I want it to be permanent. Also I have GParted, but the Partition >…
Jiew Meng
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I am using Virtual Box 5.1 on top of Windows 7 Host OS with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Guest OS. I have already installed VBOXADDITIONS_5.1.14_112924 and restarted the Guest machine. The folder appears as mounted underneath the Devices in Files, and it…
Nathan Griffin
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CIFS mount through fstab not mounting at boot

I have a CIFS share on my NAS that I want to have mounted at boot - it's used by my MythTV server as the main media store. I added an entry into fstab to have it mount but it doesn't. It appears that, after looking through my system logs, fstab is…
douggro
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Virtualbox shared folder mount from fstab fails; works once bootup is complete

I've got Ubuntu 13.10 installed in Virtualbox 4.3. The host machine is Windows. I have a couple of Virtualbox shared folders being mounted by /etc/fstab. Until recently this setup worked just fine, but after upgrading from Ubuntu 13.04 and…
Ben
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Automount ext4 partition with user permission/ownership (fstab?)

I just installed Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" on my Acer Aspire One D257, creating the partitions: $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 15G 2.1G 12G 15% / ... /dev/sda1 1008M 62M 896M 7% /boot …
Christophe
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Automatically mount NTFS drive when I login

I use Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows7 dual boot with Ubuntu as my primary OS. Every time I need to access a document I need to mount the respective drive, though this is not at all tiresome, still, is there any way that drives becomes automatically…
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External drive mounts only as root

I'm having trouble with a USB drive. It used to automount just fine but for some reason those good old days are over. Not only does it not automount but mounting it as a regular user from Nautilus or the terminal gets me a You do not have the…
Martin V-outer
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How to configure the default automount location?

I recently upgraded from Mint 12 to Ubuntu 12.10 + Cinnamon. I have an external usb drive that when I plug it in, automatically mounts to /media/[username]/Backup/. Thing is, under Mint, it didn't include the [username] portion. It just mounted…
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How to configure a NFS mounting in fstab?

I have a NFS share folder on a FreeNas system. I'm able to mount this share and use it with this command: mount -t nfs -o proto=tcp,port=2049 192.168.0.216:/mnt/HDD1 /media/freenas/ I just don't know how to do that in /etc/fstab so it does it…
Nicholas Parmentier
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Securely automount encrypted drive at user login

An encrypted /home directory gets mounted automatically for me when I log in. I have a second internal hard drive that I've formatted and encrypted with Disk Utility. I want it to be automatically mounted when I login, just like my encrypted /home…
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