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[ubuntu] auto-mount partition on startup?

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Submitted by colm on 02/04/2013

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I have noticed that Quantal now mounts each partition under a root like

/media/<user>

Since I need to auto-mount a partition at startup and this naming convention is totally new for me I was thinking that maybe there is a new way to do this correctly for Ubuntu 12.10 and it's time to discard fstab.

Hello, I am using Ubuntu 12.04.01 precise pangolin. I have an NTFS partition which I need every time I start Ubuntu. So can you help me to create a startup program for mounting it?

INFO:- It is located in /dev/sda5. I have tried creating a program using 'mount' on 'Startup Applications'.

Hello all, first of all I am running 13.04, and having trouble mounting disks at startup.

Hi, Im a noob coming over from windows so sorry if this is easy &/or has been answered and I could find it.

I am running a dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10 on my Asus eeepc 1001px.

I have 2 partitions on my computer:

one is "64 GB ext4" (with Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit) and the other one is "Data 436 GB NTFS" (just for storing files)

On startup the second partition is not mounted before I click on "Locais" - this is in Portuguese (the button between Applications and System on the top bar) > "Data".

How do I make Ubuntu mount this partit

Hi,

I have installed Ubuntu with an extra FAT 32 partition but I have chosed its mount point to be /windows and yesterday I have booted my pc with Active@ boot disk and formatted the partition to NTFS.

This simple and brief tutorial is going to show you how to automatically mount Windows 7 and other ntfs partitions in Ubuntu 12.10. It’s easy to use NTFS Configuration tool to make Ubuntu auto-mount Windows 7 dual-boot partition. First search for and install ntfs-config package in Ubuntu Software Center.

Then hit Ctrl+Alt+T, copy and paste this command into terminal and hit enter to run: su

I have an nfs share I'm trying to mount automatically at startup in ubuntu / xbmc

I have the following in /etc/fstab

nas:/mnt/raid /mnt/raid nfs noauto,rw,async

On startup the mount doesn't automatically occur.

If I issue a manual mount commant it works:

$ sudo mount -o noauto,rw,async -t nfs nas:/mnt/raid /mnt/raid

How can I get this mount to occur automatically on startup?

Looking for e

How do I mount a vmware vmdk file as /home on startup?

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