automounting a USB hard drive

[Rashkae]

pkaplan1 at comcast.net wrote:
> Running karmic kde, fresh install, fully updated (w/ udev 147~.6.1) 
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> I have an external usb hard drive with one ntfs and four ext3 partitions. Under both Jaunty and Karmic, the drive is found at /dev/sdb1 to /dev/sdb5. Under Jaunty the all the partitions automounted at launch with the following /etc/fstab entries: 
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> # /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 
> # /windows was on /dev/sda1 during installation 
> UUID=B4BCCC8FBCCC4E14 /windows ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1 
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> However, under Karmic, I have to manually issue sudo mount -a to get the partitions to mount; they won't automount at boot. 
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> How can i get them to automount? 
> Paul 
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Kind of a brute force approach, but also easy.

you can insert:

mount /media/mercury
mount /media/saturn

etc:

in your /etc/rc.local file


I'm assuming your problem stems from Karmic flying through the fstab
entries before the usb bus is ready, and not stopping on missing
filesystems.