More woes automounting USB drive on karmic

[pkaplan1 at comcast.net]

No luck. 

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From: "Abdullah Teke" <ateke.groups at gmail.com> 
To: "Kubuntu Help and User Discussions" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:05:25 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: More woes automounting USB drive on karmic 

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 




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