How do I automount partitions on statup, Xubuntu 14.04

Question

Recently, I upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to Xubuntu 14.04.

I have 2 partitions on my computer: One for Windows and one for Ubuntu. I keep all my music and junk on the Windows partition, so when I click on Clementine, I have to click on my windows partition for Clementine to find the song.

I remember I installed some program in 12.04 that automatically mounted partitions, but I can't find it again.

It turned the path to the partition from something like this /media/169821DE9821BD5D/ to something like this /media/sda1.

Anybody know what it is? I just spent the last half hour looking up ways to automount, but none of them was woking with xubuntu. Any help?

Solution 1

From Ubuntu 12.10 onwards, the steps in this answer applies for automounting partitions. The Disks utility (formerly palimpsest) (which is already installed on Ubuntu, but perhaps not on Xubuntu) should be enough. If it isn't installed, click here to install it, or use this command:

sudo apt-get install gnome-disk-utility

Open it, select your disk and partition, and click on the gear icon to get to mount options and enable automount. Screenshots are available in the linked answer.

Solution 2

First you need to make the directory to mount to (e.g.) /mnt/2tb and then you can edit /etc/fstab to create the mount. Fstab will then automatically mount your drive/partition to the directory created at boot.

Comments

[muru]

Have a look at askubuntu.com/questions/271516/…

[sbergeron]

basically that goes over everything you need to do from what I see, could you put that as a possible answer @muru ?

[muru]

@sbergeron should I put it as answer or mark this as a duplicate?

[sbergeron]

not really a duplicate question, even though the answer there is absolutely perfect for here, I say put up the link then quote the answer

[Gabriel Staples]

Your link where you wrote "this answer" above doesn't seem to be the right link at all. Perhaps this is the link you meant to post in its place? askubuntu.com/questions/783061/automount-in-16-04

[muru]

@GabrielStaples no, my comment on the question has the correct link. Thanks for noticing.