Automatically mount at startup: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 07:10, 14 May 2016

To find the correct UUID of your drive:

blkid

Returns:

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/dev/sda2: LABEL="Ubuntu" UUID="12312312312312312" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda3: LABEL="Data" UUID="45645645645645645" TYPE="ntfs" 
...

To get your user-id:

id -u $USERNAME

Or:

echo $UID

Now edit fstab:

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Add the following line:

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UUID=45645645645645645 /media/Data auto defaults,uid=1000,nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
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For more info on the possible options:

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 [[Category:201604]]
-TODO / DOING
+To find the correct UUID of your drive:
-See
+<syntaxhighlight lang=bash>
-* https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticallyMountPartitions
+blkid
+</syntaxhighlight>
+Returns:
+<blockquote>
+<pre>
+...
+/dev/sda2: LABEL="Ubuntu" UUID="12312312312312312" TYPE="ext4"
+/dev/sda3: LABEL="Data" UUID="45645645645645645" TYPE="ntfs"
+...
+</pre>
+</blockquote>
+To get your user-id:
+<syntaxhighlight lang=bash>
+id -u $USERNAME
+</syntaxhighlight>
+Or:
+<syntaxhighlight lang=bash>
+echo $UID
+</syntaxhighlight>
-Edit fstab:
+Now edit fstab:
 <syntaxhighlight lang=bash>
 sudo gedit /etc/fstab
 </syntaxhighlight>
+Add the following line:
+<blockquote>
+<pre>
+...
+UUID=45645645645645645 /media/Data auto defaults,uid=1000,nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
+...
+</pre>
+</blockquote>
+For more info on the possible options:
+* https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticallyMountPartitions
 See also:
+* [[Trashcan support on NTFS volumes]]
 * [[Nautilus action when media inserted]]
 * [[Require sudo password for mounting]]
 * [[Nautilus disable auto mount]]