Hardy won't automatically mount my hard drives on login

[jonssoni]

I've got also two internal hard disks (ntfs + fat32) drives.
After upgrading from Gutsy to Hardy automount on login does not work.
Anyone to make bug report?
Very irritating problem, because my mp3 files are on fat32 disk and I have to click on the hard disk in Places menu before Audacious can play the files...

[djrobthaman]

It looks like the post I made this morning has disappeared. But I just wanted to say that joeb's suggestion of using ntfs config worked like a charm.

johnssoni - you can make a bug report if you want. Anyone can, no need to ask someone else to. But is it really a bug?

I did an upgrade first and had no problem. The problem I had, and I'm guessing you're in the same boat, happened when I did a clean install. During the partitioning part of the install process the livecd detected all of my drives, but I did not specify that I wanted to use them (this is located in the properties menu for each partition). So the entries needed in the fstab for automatic mounting were not saved.

I'm sure if you look in your fstab (/etc/fstab) you will only find entries for your cd drives and your linux drive. To fix this I recommend you first make sure your drives are unmounted (open the terminal and type "sudo umount -a") then run ntfs config (of course you have to have ntfs config installed first). It will then give you the options for mounting your ntfs drives and when you do it that way, the fstab will get updated properly and that drive will mount automatically.

As for the fat32 drive, I think you're just going to have to edit the fstab yourself. I'm sure that you can find the proper edit by googling around a little or you could just wait and someone will probably tell you how it should be done in this thread.

[zsolt320i]

Hi,

my problem is that the hard drives do not appear in the "places"(between the applications and system menu in the tray) menu, but the drives are automaticaly mounted in winc, wind, wine.
What should i do to appear the mounted ntfs drives in the menu?

[megale]

JOEB454,
That did the trick!
Thanks!

[Sari]

JOEB454,
thanks man.. but one problem remain is FAT
this method only works for NTFS file system

[seriey_x2]

I have the same problem and I found a solution which required me to edit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi

from

<merge key="storage.automount_enabled_hint" type="bool">false</merge>

to this

<merge key="storage.automount_enabled_hint" type="bool">true</merge>

However I am a little bit hesitate to follow it. Is this will really solve the problem? Will there be any subsequent problem arise?

[ShereKhan]

This is not funny, I found really embarrassing the fact that my hard drives are not mounted automatically... I've tried suggestions in this thread but without success. Please, can someone help? At least a proper link to the solutions...

This is what I get after "sudo fdisk -l"

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2d972d96

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda2 * 1 19456 156280288+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 6375 12748 51199123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 12749 19456 53881978+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 1 124 995935+ 82 Linux swap Solaris
/dev/sda8 125 6374 50203093+ 83 Linux

I've noticed that people usually get also partition "/dev/sda1" but for some reason I don't have that one...

Thank you for your replies...

[Hachi-Roku]

Open synaptic (click System>Administration) or Add/Remove (Under Applications) and search for NTFS config. Install this, then make sure your XP drive is not mounted, and run it from Applications>System Tools It will automatically mount your drive on boot

After researching a way to do this in fstab, for the purposes of learning, this method proved quicker and easier.

props!

[Capa Pinbacker]

Here what I did to auto-mount an NTFS drive at boot:
1. I used "Gparted" (via Partition Editor on the System->Administration menu) to determine that it was called hda2.

2. Then I added the appropriate line to the /etc/fstab file:
/dev/hda2 /media/DATA vfat umask=000 0 0

The latter gives read/write permissions (I copied it from a prior thread).

[The Spy]

I have the same problem and I found a solution which required me to edit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi

from

<merge key="storage.automount_enabled_hint" type="bool">false</merge>

to this

<merge key="storage.automount_enabled_hint" type="bool">true</merge>


However I am a little bit hesitate to follow it. Is this will really solve the problem? Will there be any subsequent problem arise?

I tried this "fix" and it worked with no problems.
Thanx for posting!