Hardy won't automatically mount my hard drives on login

[djrobthaman]

Hi everyone,

The title says it all. Every time I log in to hardy, I must now click on each hard drive in the Places menu once for them to mount and then again to access it. Once this is done the drives are mounted for the rest of the session, which is great, but this is really annoying since I always forget and will do something like start amarok before mounting my music drive. Then amarok will go crazy and lose my list of music and have to take another 10 minutes to rescan it when I mount the disk.

Haas anyone else had this problem?

What can I do?

Thanks

[garyedwardjohnston]

If these are internal drives, then I don't know, if they are external usb ones then disable HiSpeed USB 2.0 support in BIOS.

[djrobthaman]

It's funny you ask. I never even realized to say this but they are all internal drives. However, in the places menu they're being displayed as "removable media".

[kestrel1]

Got the same problem here. Tried editing the /etc/fstab file, but made no difference. Presume I have done something wrong. Any help appreciated.

[wolfpacker1983]

I have the same problem. Any help would be appreciated

[kestrel1]

Not sure if this will work, but it has for me.
You need to use pmount. This may not be installed, to install it type this in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install pmount

Once pmount is installed type:

sudo pmount /dev/sdb1

sdb1 was the correct drive for me, you may need to change that to the correct drive or partition.
If you get an error that a folder is not present in mount, you need to create the folder first. If your partition is named use that as the folders name. To create the folder type:

sudo mkdir /mount/pname

pname being the name of the partition.
Hope this helps someone.
After doing this, my drive now mounts at boot up.