External Hard disk being mounted in a different path after upgrade to 14.04

Question

I have upgraded my Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04. After the upgrade I noticed that my external hard disk is being mounted in a separate path.

Earlier, It used to be in /media/u10. Now I see it is mounted on /media/walt/u10.

walt is the root username for my ubuntu PC.

I have to change it manually by running this below command everytime,

sudo  mount -B   /media/walt/u10     /media/u10

How to resolve this issue , I don't want to run above command everytime.

Yes. I have virtual box machines and all related disks in that drive. And Virtualbox machines don't start in that new location. — walterb, Oct 05 '14 at 12:29
What should be the fstab entry for this hard disk. WHen I do df -h for this hard disk it shows below.....
/dev/sdb1 1.8T 240G 1.5T 14% /media/walt/u10 — walterb, Oct 05 '14 at 12:42
The linux file system standard changed the location for mounting remoable media - you can over ride it if you wish — Panther, Oct 05 '14 at 13:00
It's just a workaround, but what about a symbolic link from the desired to the actual location? sudo ln -s walt/u10 /media. That's less invasive and permanent than adding an fstab entry. — David Foerster, Oct 05 '14 at 13:04
This seems a duplicate of http://askubuntu.com/questions/214646/how-to-configure-the-default-automount-location --- it has the solution in the second (not the accepted) answer. — Rmano, Oct 05 '14 at 13:14

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 05 '14 at 13:02

Use the blkid command to get the UUID of the partition on the external disk:

$ sudo blkid | grep sdb1
/dev/sdb1: UUID="cdff3742-9d03-4bc1-93e3-ae50708474f2" TYPE="ext4"

The corresponding fstab entry will look like

UUID="cdff3742-9d03-4bc1-93e3-ae50708474f2" /media/u10 auto defaults,nofail 0 0

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 05 '14 at 13:11

The simple configuration would be this:

UUID="01CCD01C97D32280" /media/etc   ntfs       0              0       0

Here

/media/etc is the folder where you want to mount your disk
ntfs is the format of partition.
Rest values wouldn't be neccessary for plain auto-mounting and if you want advanced configuration, manual is always there. Link to the manual page .

Here UUID of any partition can be found out using:

sudo blkid

Complete procedure would be:

sudo blkid, to get the UUID of the disk, you can use disk-name too, but I prefer it.
gksudo gedit /etc/fstabedit the fstab file.
Append this line, to the end of configuration file.
UUID="01CCD01C97D32280" /media/etc ntfs 0 0 0

Hope it would help :) :)

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