Disk management GUI

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Mon, 04 May 2009 17:05:01 -0500
Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com> wrote:

> I may be crazy (so my wife tells me daily.) But I thought there was a
> GUI way to add a second hard disk and tell where to mount it in the
> previous LTS version of Ubuntu. It was under System -> Administration or
> System -> Preferences menu.
> 
> With it you could partition a disk, format it,

There was 'Gparted' which maybe was installed by default in Ubuntu back
then. Not sure about recent releases though: I had it installed
manually years ago, and only do in-situ upgrades, so even if it was
removed at some point from the defauly Ubuntu setup, it would not be
removed on my machine during the upgrade process, so I wouldn't know.

> and get it mounted automatically at startup.

I don't recall any utility that does (or ever did) this in a stock
Ubuntu install. I do remember that Gnome, years ago, *experimented* a
little utility (indeed in the Admin menu of Ubuntu, at least during
the developement cycle if not in the final release, it was just called
'Hard Disks' IIRC...) which allowed to list hard drives, specify mount
points for partitions, mount the volumes... but it was only valid for
the current session, it would NOT survive reboots (because it did not
write /etc/fstab to match). I remember filing a bug report back then,
about this oddity. This utility was abandonned as soon as it appeared.


--
Vince