More woes automounting USB drive on karmic

[Abdullah Teke]

You can insert the following command line into the /etc/rc.local file.

mount /dev/sdb5 /mountPoint

When you startup the pc your partition would be mounted.



On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:54 PM, <pkaplan1 at comcast.net> wrote:

> I'm still having problems automounting a USB hard drive w/ 5 partitions on
> Karmic at boot time.
>
> Here's the relevant portion of /etc/fstab (This worked fine under Jaunty):
>
> # /media/jupiter was on /dev/sdb5 during installation
> UUID=5af75fba-045b-41c1-ae54-f7c5bc133694 /media/jupiter  ext3    relatime
>        0       2
> # /media/mars was on /dev/sdb3 during installation
> UUID=27655aac-f0fc-40df-9ba1-8412d584b5c5 /media/mars     ext3    relatime
>        0       2
> # /media/mercury was on /dev/sdb2 during installation
> UUID=08c89a6f-7c9c-4f59-b26d-e43921450ad9 /media/mercury  ext3    relatime
>        0       2
> # /media/saturn was on /dev/sdb6 during installation
> UUID=a21074d2-7e57-4676-aeda-c80b560d9c68 /media/saturn   ext3    relatime
>        0       2
> # /media/venus was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
> UUID=1968-2E97  /media/venus    vfat    utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
>
> None of the partitions are mounted at boot time.
>
> I tried adding the following lines to /etc/rc.local
>
> mount /media/mercury
> mount /media/mars
> mount /media/jupiter
> mount /media/saturn
> mount /media/venus
>
> When I do this, mount returns the following (relevant lines):
>
> /dev/sdb3 on /media/mars type ext3 (rw,relatime)
> /dev/sdb2 on /media/mercury type ext3 (rw,relatime)
> /dev/sdb6 on /media/saturn type ext3 (rw,relatime)
> /dev/sdb1 on /media/venus type vfat (rw,utf8,umask=007,gid=46)
>
> (note that /dev/sdb5 is not listed)
>
> but the partitions aren't mounted.
>
> If I then issue sudo mount -a the drives are mounted but thru /dev/sdc*
>
> /dev/sda2 on /home type ext3 (rw,relatime)
> /dev/sda1 on /windows type fuseblk
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
> /dev/sdb3 on /media/mars type ext3 (rw,relatime)
> /dev/sdb2 on /media/mercury type ext3 (rw,relatime)
> /dev/sdb6 on /media/saturn type ext3 (rw,relatime)
> /dev/sdb1 on /media/venus type vfat (rw,utf8,umask=007,gid=46)
> /dev/sdc5 on /media/jupiter type ext3 (rw,relatime)
> /dev/sdc3 on /media/mars type ext3 (rw,relatime)
> /dev/sdc2 on /media/mercury type ext3 (rw,relatime)
> /dev/sdc6 on /media/saturn type ext3 (rw,relatime)
> /dev/sdc1 on /media/venus type vfat (rw,utf8,umask=007,gid=46)
>
> I'm still looking for a solution that automounts the USB drive at startup
> (or at least by the time KDE launches).
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> --
> kubuntu-users mailing list
> kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Modify settings or unsubscribe at:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users
>
>


-- 
Abdullah Teke
---------------------------
abdullahteke at gmail.com
www.abdullahteke.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-users/attachments/20091112/151a380d/attachment.html>