Ubuntu 8.04 not automatically mounting new HD

BopNiblets

Added a new 1TB hard drive to my system recently but I have to manually mount it each time (click on it in Places), it's NTFS formatted and shared with Vista (not the OS though).
I think I have to mess with fstab or something?

cance

man fstab
man mount

To edit fstab:

just open up fstab with vi or nano, and the syntax should be self evident:
Code:

/path/to/device /path/to/mount/point fstype options 0(in most cases) 0(in most cases)

so if you wanted to mount a usb flash drive at boot up, taking up device /dev/sda1 at /mnt/usb with a FAT filesystem, the line would be:
Code:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb vfat defaults 0 0

BopNiblets

Ok I'll give something like that a shot, thanks.

BopNiblets

Hey guys, still haven't sorted this out, here is my fstab file:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda3
UUID=fdef5777-6150-4be3-9c99-149d852e27bb / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda1
UUID=92C2B604C2B5ED1B /media/sda1 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda2
UUID=D284CEA784CE8E03 /media/sda2 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sdb5
UUID=92EC643E35B2B190 /media/sdb5 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sdc5
UUID=C2A9CCDDACC9919F /media/sdc5 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0

The UUID of the drive I'm trying to add is 4615065F0311C6FD and it's NTFS, but I'm not sure of what to put in for the filesystem and mount points...
My /dev directory doesn't have sda1/2/3 or sdb5/sdc5 in it.

stereo_steve

Restart your computer but don't mount your harddrive..

In the terminal type df

This will show you your drives. Make a note of them. Then mount your hard drive and type df again. The difference between the two df's will show you the information you require!

This way is a bit cumbersome but its straight forward.

Good luck

BopNiblets

Ah, that got it.
I used UUID=4615065F0311C6FD /media/sdb5 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
I think the other UUID was my old hard drive.

Thanks!

pickarooney

On a related note, some bright spark at Canonical seems to have decided it would be a good idea to get rid of automounting SD cards, USB devices and other such peripherals in Hardy. Major WTF?
Why on earth would they do that and how is user Lambda supposed to figure out how to edit an fstab file so his memory card will be visible, the way it was in the last three releases...

Utter, utter, rubbish.

ethernet

pickarooney wrote: »

On a related note, some bright spark at Canonical seems to have decided it would be a good idea to get rid of automounting SD cards, USB devices and other such peripherals in Hardy. Major WTF?
Why on earth would they do that and how is user Lambda supposed to figure out how to edit an fstab file so his memory card will be visible, the way it was in the last three releases...

Utter, utter, rubbish.

That's not a great move. Hardy you say? Could this be related to the new policy kit implementation?

BopNiblets

Hmm, I have another problem with this, it was all going well until I had to manually reboot vista today, now my drives won't mount in Linux Mint (I went back into Vista and restarted in case they were locked, but still no luck):


I saw a way to mount them all as su:

sudo mount -a
fuse: failed to access mountpoint /media/VISTA: No such file or directory
fuse: failed to access mountpoint /media/NIBS: No such file or directory
fuse: failed to access mountpoint /media/GAMES: No such file or directory

Here's my fstab file:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda3
UUID=ef2075fb-fe58-4a44-8384-3b999024a226 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/VISTA ntfs,defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
/dev/sdb5 /media/NIBS ntfs,defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
/dev/sda2 /media/GAMES ntfs,defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1

An Fear Aniar

pickarooney wrote: »

On a related note, some bright spark at Canonical seems to have decided it would be a good idea to get rid of automounting SD cards, USB devices and other such peripherals in Hardy. Major WTF?

Well, my copy of hardy 8.04 does mount all my partitions, including automount of USB drives and CDs, don't know about SD cards though.


.

ethernet

@BopNiblets

Have to ask the obvious: do the directories VISTA, NIBS and GAMES exist under /media? Mount points have to exist when specified in the mount command.

BopNiblets

Oh ok, they used to be there, manually created them now and then did "sudo mount -a" and they popped up, duh me.

BopNiblets

*big bump*
Thought I'd make use of my old thread, I can make a new one if need be.

More mounting niggles unrelated to above stuff, after reinstalling Windows 7 and it wiped out GRUB2, which I got back easily enough, some of my drives in Mint aren't mounting the way they were again.
I appear to have an extra device called NIBS for some reason and my WIN device doesn't mount automatically on boot.

Also is there a way to hide the System Reserved one from my menu?

fstab file:

/dev/sda4 /media/GAMES ntfs,defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
/dev/sdb5 /media/NIBS ntfs,defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
/dev/sda2 /media/WIN ntfs,defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1 
# / was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=b5ef4cda-d3ad-4494-9d8f-ce62f8986693 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1

Computer:

Note the two NIBS, only one of them mounts.

EDIT: Huh I rebooted there nand everything is back to normal, weird, DISREGARD!