On 13 March 2012 16:40, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13 March 2012 15:29, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On 13 March 2012 15:14, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Reposted from Ubuntu-users, where nobody was able to even give me a > >> pointer. Anyone here got any ideas? > >> > >> This used to be the default behaviour, IIRC. > >> > >> I keep a lot of non-critical stuff on a FAT32 volume shared with > >> Windows. I have put it into /etc/fstab manually; this worked at first, > >> but for some reason, it keeps mounting RO & I have to do a `sudo > >> umount /dev/sdb6` command to unmount it, then use Nautilus to remount > >> it for all users as RW. > >> > >> What I'd rather like is the way Ubuntu /used/ to handle this in years > >> gone by: to just automatically mount all visible drives at boot time. > >> > >> I've Googled but I can't find an easy way of achieving this. Is there > one? > >> > >> BTW, I don't mean to add them to /etc/fstab; I mean to just mount all > >> visible volumes, even when these change. > > > > If automount doesn't do it and can't be made to do it, then you'd > probably > > have to script it. I'm finding that gparted makes it a lot easier to do > that > > sort of thing. > > I've installed automount - nothing works automagically, certainly. If > it has to be manually configured, could you give me any pointers to a > HOWTO or anything? > > This seems to do what I'd expect it to do: http://superuser.com/questions/53978/ubuntu-automatically-mount-external-drives-to-media-label-on-boot-without-a-u
The missing link is setting up udev correctly. A bit further down it also mentions pysdm, which apparently helps with creating the udev rules. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood "more of a stain than a globule"
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