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USB emulated CDROM drive is not automounting (repurposed U3 smart USB stick)

I've used u3-tool to load a ISO onto my 2MB USB stick. If I'm running 13.04 or 12.04 and I place the flash drive in my PC, the remaining ~923MB fat32 partition auto-mounts, but not the emulated ...
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Don't automatically open the folder of mounted devices

I usually charge my phone through a USB connection. Due to Ubuntu 13.04 detecting and mounting it, Nautlius automatically opens the mounted folder. Can I stop Nautlius from automatically opening the ...
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Ubuntu will not automount external hard drive

I can't get my external hard drive to mount automatically. I can only mount it via the terminal. And even then, I also have to unmount via the terminal else I receive the warning in the attached ...
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Auto-mount usb flash drivers for remote servers using bash file for scheduled backup operation

I have to do scheduled backup of servers' databases using a cronjob for the backup task and a bash script for the backup operation. It's a PHP web application. You can choose to store your backup file ...
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automatic mount any external drive under /media with read/write access to everyone

Here is my issue: My computer has 4 USB ports and is running Ubuntu 12.10. I receive different USBs every day, plug to my computer, read/write data to them, and then send them away. What I want is ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 still auto mounts USB

I'm trying to disable auto-mounting usb drives - and having difficulties here. I uninstalled usbmount and pmount. I went into dconf-editor and unchecked "auto-mount" option. Yet, whenever I connect ...
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How to mount a USB device in read only mode?

I wish to securely copy files from a USB external drive such that no files on that drive may be modified spuriously. Would someone tell me in relatively simple wording how to accomplish this please? ...
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USB hard drive does not get automatically mounted, and the icon doesn't appear in the launcher

A USB flash drive is detected as expected and appears in the unity sidebar. It mounts under /media/john, with john being my username. However, a USB hard drive does not show in the launcher. The ...
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Automounting my fat32 external USB drive with fstab

My hard drive is a Seagate External HD and it worked perfectly out of the box. The filesystem was NTFS and it showed up on the left hand side in Nautilus with its own icon, and it was referenced as ...
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How to automount NTFS usb sticks on Xubuntu 12.10?

I'm running the Xubuntu 12.10 on a Lenovo T520 laptop. If I plug a FAT formatted usb stick, it's mounted automatically, but if I plug in a NTFS formatted one, I have to mount it manually. How to ...
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Cannot automount any usb external device under quantal

I recently upgrade to quantal and I have to mount all my devices (usb key, extrernal hard drive and even data cd) manually. I get the following error message in a pop-up window when I insert any ...
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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 ...
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Cannot mount LUKS encrypted USB on boot after 12.10 upgrade

I use a USB disk to backup my Ubuntu machine and store the video files I work with. It is formated to ext4 and uses LUKS encription. When I was using 12.04 it was working flawlessly and would mount ...
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Auto-select external soundcard?

Just got an external USB sound card because my internal speakers broke. The new sound card works just fine after plugging it in and going to System Settings > Sound, and then selecting the device. ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Server auto mount usb to static location

I am trying to get a USB external hard drive (ext4) to automatically mount when it is plugged in. I used to have it working but has since stopped. I have tried the usbmount package however it will ...
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Auto-mounting an encrypted USB hard drive

How can you configure a headless Ubuntu server to auto-mount an encrypted USB hard drive? I found this similar question, which explains how to mount the drive from the command line, but the author is ...
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my LaCie 500 Gb not mounted on 11.10

My external USB drive was recognized with 10.x versions of Ubuntu but since 11.x I am getting stuck, I had tried everything I read in forums but still the same error: 4956.401052] usb 2-1.4: new ...
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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 ...
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How do I automount usb drives to /media/volume_label on a server? [closed]

As mentioned in the title, I'd like to automount usb drives to /media/volume_label in Ubuntu Server 11.10. I'd like to make this happen like it does with Ubuntu Desktop, but in an Ubuntu Server ...
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How does automated hotplug mounting work?

I was reading a bit about gnome-mount, HAL, udev, etc. It left me with a couple of faint ideas how mounting a hotplug device might work in the latest Ubuntu release. Could someone give a detailed ...
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How to understand the flow of USB detection?

I would like to understand the flow of the USB events form the Kernel space to the User space (just out of my curiosity, in knowing how things are implemented). To be more clear, I would like to ...
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Two identical USB drives auto-mount with different owner group permissons, but why?

UPDATE: (solved- sort of} See my answer below I have 2 identical USB drives which I've both formatted to identical specs using Gparted. Both have two identical primary partitions (ext4 and ...
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How to auto mount a flash drive with root and read/write/execute privileges

I have an issue with mounting my Flash drive on Ubuntu 10.04 with write privileges. It's currently partitioned as Fat32 with Label KINGSTON but when I insert it into the Laptop it reads it as usb0, ...
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How can I get a USB floppy drive to work?

I have a Toshiba USB floppy drive that I need to use under Ubuntu. When I connect it, and insert a floppy disk in it, I do not see anything mounted under Ubuntu 10.10. I was suspecting the hardware ...
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Auto-mount USB after reboot

what should I do if I want that my USB key is auto-mounted after reboot? I mounted it on /media/corsair, but after reboot it is gone...
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How to auto mount my external hard drive?

On login, ubuntu 10.10 would not mount external hard drives automatically, While ubuntu 10.04 mount them on login. I've tried Storage Device Manager but it give error when external hard is not ...