Automatically mounting all volumes at boot

[Liam Proven]

On 6 March 2012 20:10, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Sure, it would, yes, but I have 2 hard disks connected, containing
WinXP, Win7, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 12.04, OpenSolaris and PC-BSD 9 on
this PC. Most have separate partitions for /, /home & swap. (Yes, even
Windows.)

So it's kinda complex and it changes a lot.

I just want them all mounted, all the time, subject to readability.

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