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I use Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows7 dual boot with Ubuntu as my primary OS.
Every time I need to access a document I need to mount the respective drive, though this is not at all tiresome, still, is there any way that drives becomes automatically mounted when I login?
Notice: If you are using Ubuntu 14.04 and later, Don't forget to check the note at the end of the answer
Go to the Startup Applications, by Clicking right-top corner Settings icon ---> Startup Applications.
The click on the Add button, Write a name for this operation such as "Mount ntfs drives",
then in command input box, write this udisks --mount /dev/sda2, to automount the ntfs partition.
Note: You need to replace the /dev/sda2 with your actual NTFS partition number.
You can get this number by this command:
sudo blkid
Below is the output of this command in my computer.
/dev/sda1: UUID="89b18940-d5ff-4ce1-a85a-42cdd0369016" UUID_SUB="57d79ff6-7b53-44bc-82ec-ef783a23efc3" TYPE="btrfs"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="Main" UUID="A80C1BD70C1B9F7E" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="Work" UUID="01CCB271A80A07E0" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: LABEL="Free" UUID="CA9A-4F0A" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda6: LABEL="Ubuntu" UUID="364126ac-01c9-4dd2-ab19-eecc733a9640" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda7: LABEL="Free2" UUID="ed26eebb-524b-4533-869a-9dbd2b92bd64" TYPE="xfs"
/dev/sda8: UUID="312d4cd9-21a9-4c0d-aa34-26230e70fa89" TYPE="swap"
For Mounting with Executable permission
For those of you (like me) who wants to have executable permission to be set upon mounting, so that you can have options for execute a file with double-clicking , Add this extra bit of options with udisks command.
--mount-options=umask=022
So, the total line for /dev/sda2 should be like this (tested on 13.04)
udisks --mount /dev/sda2 --mount-options=umask=022
Caution: If you are a bit worried with security, you may choose not to have this functionality.
If you are using Ubuntu 14.04 or newer versions, You may notice that udisks packages is no longer available there. Yes, it is replaced by udisksctl package. So, You need to use udisksctl instead of udisks. It is basically do the same things, but syntax is more easier.
udisksctl mount -b /dev/sda2
(in the case your targeted partition is /dev/sda2) Here, -b is indicating that it is a block device
udisksctl mount -b /dev/sda2 -o umask=022
(Here -o indicating that following are options for udisksctl).
You can access the man page of udisksctl with man udisksctl command or read it online here!
/etc/fstab?
udisks is not available in 16.04. It was changed to /usr/bin/udisksctl. I believe the apropriate command would be /usr/bin/udisksctl mount -b PATH/TO/DEVICE.
Nov 9, 2016 at 18:30
The udisks command does the same thing as nautilus
It comes installed by default and doesn't require any changes to your system files.
just add something like:
/usr/bin/udisks --mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/1313-F422
to your startup list.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticallyMountPartitions#udisks
udisksctl mount -b /dev/disk/by-uuid/THE_UUID. udisksctl is in the udisks2 package and I don't have a udisks package.
I think simply you can add your partition configuration to /etc/fstab as well.
Basically get the partition name from command line either through sudo blkid or sudo fdisk -l SO add to your /etc/fstab with gksu gedit
The entry should look like this:
/dev/sd[ab]# /path_to/mount_point ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
where path to mount point may be something like /home/YourUserName/Windows. You may need to mkdir Windows. Then you can access windows partition in Windows folder inside your Home folder
simple - method is to install the pysdm package (in Gutsy) and then use System-Administration-Storage Device Manager without any manual editing of the fstab file, and disregard most of the instructions that follow.
check this site for any doubts
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticallyMountPartitions
You could do this directly with the mount command.
Edit /etc/rc.local. This gets executed at startup after boot as root:
gksudo gedit /etc/rc.local
and put the mount code inside:
mount_at="/media/OS" partition="/dev/sda3" if [ ! -d $mount_at ] #create mound directory if it doesn't exist then mkdir $mount_at fi mount -t ntfs $partition $mount_at
where $mount_at is the folder where you want to mount to, and $partition is the name of the partition. My windows partition is at "/dev/sda3" and not "/dev/sda1" because I have a Dell with other small system partitions. To check what is the name of your windows partition do:
sudo fdisk -l
which for me gives
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 2048 206847 102400 de Dell Utility /dev/sda2 * 206848 30926847 15360000 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3 30926848 540132512 254602832+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda4 540133374 625141759 42504193 5 Extended /dev/sda5 540133376 619132927 39499776 83 Linux /dev/sda6 619134976 625141759 3003392 82 Linux swap / Solaris
So /dev/sda3 is the largest NTFS partition, probably the one you want.
