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I use Shotwell to manage my picture library. The pictures are all on a fat32 partition, as I want to be able to access them as well from Windows.

With the fresh installation of Ubuntu 12.04 I always had problems when opening the library in Shotwell:

All of my pictures disappeared one after another, because appearantly Shotwell thought they were not available. I had to manually click on my fat32 partition and I think Ubuntu mounted it then. I had to reopen Shotwell and it would show the pictures again - but of course it always took some time to build the database and thumbnails.

I tried to change my fstab to mount the partition on bootup with the following entry, but now I get problems at startup:

/dev/sda2                                  /media/pictures  vfat     rw,user,exec,umask=000 0  0

What could I try to get rid of that problem? Do I have to mount the partition permanently? What is the problem with my fstab

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Possible Duplicate. Look at my answer askubuntu.com/questions/154180/… – Mitch Jun 22 '12 at 13:26

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