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

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How do I get my internal HDD to mount at startup? Disks utility not working

It's either not intuitive or not working in Ubuntu 14.04. I want to mount my internal HDD at at startup (I boot from an SSD). I attempt to set this, following this procedure: Open Disks utility Select the disk Below the disk's Volumes, click on the…
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How to automount a partition on login?

I have my musics in another partition of the HD, and I would like that, on login, the partition to be auto-mounted, so I can just open the media player and listen to my music. Is there a way?
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How do I change the automount point?

In Ubuntu 12.10 automount point has changed from /media/xyz (like was in 12.04) into /media/"username"/xyz. This is a problem for me because I've my photos into an external usb HDD and Shotwell don't find any photo when it is using a backup…
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Can Ubuntu automatically mount a second, internal hard drive?

Possible Duplicate: Automatically mount NTFS drive when I login I have a second, internal hard drive for the purpose of backup. I use Back in Time to backup every hour onto this second drive. The problem is that, unlike Windows, Ubuntu fails to…
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Auto Mount In Ubuntu 14.04

When I plug-in my USB Hard Disk which has a NTFS file system, it mounts automatically and works properly. I am interested to know how this process works. For this, I checked the logs appearing in /var/log/syslog. In this log, I see the following…
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The disk drive for /mnt/sdc is not ready yet or not present

After adding a new hard disk to my computer I always get this error on startup: I tried to disable automount options with disks and kcmshell4 but the problem persists. How can I solve it? edit: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # #…
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Auto mount active directory users home folder to Ubuntu

We are working in the Windows environment and need to move to Linux; we joind our Linux PCs to the AD domain with centrfy, which is likewise open, and both are easy. Every user has an home folder in the Windows AD like:…
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Which properties define "auto mount" directory names?

I have a second hard drive that I am regularly adding to my Laptop in order to store backup data there. Earlier on, after I logged in, the drive showed up in the unity launcher, I could click it, and it became mounted as…
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Mount AFP Fstab

I'm currently mounting my harddrive connected to my time capsule via cifs in my fstab on ubuntu, but i'd like to mount it afp for better speeds. //192.168.1.xxx/Storage /media/storage cifs password=mypass,uid=1000,,gid=1000,sec=ntlm,user 0 0 Is this…
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Automounting Partitions Xubuntu

I'm new to this Linux stuff and installed ubuntu but didn't really like the Unity setup and had some issues so switched to Xubuntu. However, I want my partitions to automount on boot. I tried using NTFS and PySDM or whatever it's called. Any Help…
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Fail to Create New Directory/File on automounted Windows drive

My Windows drives were set to be automatically mounted in Ubuntu 8.10 when installed more than one year ago. Today I failed to creat a directory on one of the Windows drives, which rarely happened before: $ mkdir /windows-d/tmp mkdir: cannot create…
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mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on . .

I am trying to auto mount 2 hard drives on a newly setup desktop. I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 ran the updates and then immediately went to the Disk GUI in Ubuntu and set the auto mount on the ext4 partitions to auto mount. I then reboot and…
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Mounting and dismouting removable volumes changing users

Computer with 2 or 3 users. I put a dvd or plug an usb key in the system and everything is OK ! If I change of user, everything becomes out of order even the user is an administrator. I understand that -maybe- it's due to rights access to removable…
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automount thumb drive own by root

I am able to automount my thumb drive on Ubuntu 12.04.4 Server as ordinary user (non-root). However after mounting the owner was root. drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 Jan 1 1970 PP How can change the ownership ? The automout file auto.usb was as…
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How to disable automount for internal partitions?

how can I disable automount for NTFS/FAT partitions from internal diskdrives in Ubuntu 12.10?
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