Mounting drive upon log-in
I use a separate partition on my hard drive for my music, but I always have to mount it when I log in before I can play music. How can I make the partition automatically mount when I log in, so I don't have to do it manually?
On 12/11/13 10:13, oralfloss wrote:
> I use a separate partition on my hard drive for my music, but I
> always have to mount it when I log in before I can play music. How
> can I make the partition automatically mount when I log in, so I
> don't have to do it manually?
You can edit /etc/fstab so that it will automatically mount on boot.
Look up the man page or do an internet search for info on how to edit it.
Andrew.
If you install PySDM (available in the Trisquel repositories), you can do it without messing around with cryptic configuration files.
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I had this exact same problem. I tried to get it to mount the manual way, but in the end, I too ended up installing PySDM. I am glad it did--it is really easy to manage drives with it, and since using it, I've had no problems with my data drive automounting at startup. I highly recommend it.
Editing fstab is the correct way to go. Let the machine do the work, it doesn't mind.
Both fstab and mount have good manual pages.