Automatically mounting all volumes at boot

[Ric Moore]

On 03/06/2012 02:58 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 6 March 2012 19:31, Rashkae<ubuntu at tigershaunt.com>  wrote:
>> On 03/06/2012 01:12 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm happy enough to do that, but I'd rather have an answer to my
>>> original, more general question:
>>>
>>> Is it possible to have Ubuntu mount all visible filesystems
>>> automatically on boot?
>>
>>
>> Possible, yes.  But I can't tell you how off the top of my head and a quick
>> google search did not find an appropriate script.
>
> No, I know that; I searched before asking.
>
>> And probably not what you want anyhow.
>
> Er, yes, it is, or else I would not have asked for it.
>
>> Assuming your typical use case for this disk is to access the contents via a
>> desktop GUI, you need only modify Ubuntu so that the console user (that,
>> someone who is logged in from the physical computer screen/keyboard/mouse
>> rather than network) has permission to mount internal drives.
>
> No, not really!
>
> I can mount drives from the GUI, but that is no help with (for
> example) Dropbox, which will not start because my shared Dropbox
> volume is not accessible at login.


Wouldn't an entry in fstab be permanent enough? Jus wondering. Ric


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