How do I Automount an Hard dRive in my Computer in Ubuntu?

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Sonntag, den 29.11.2015, 17:25 +0100 schrieb Ralf Mardorf:
> On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 14:02:44 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > if your distro ships a well tested GUI tool by default that was
> > added,
> > tested and QAed for exactly this purpose by many people, using this
> > tool is surely a proper advice ... 
> 
> Hi Oli,
> 
> if I'm mistaken, then please consider to edit the Ubuntu help pages
> to
> make users reading the help pages aware, that there is a comfortable
> GUI that can be used instead of /etc/fstab.
> 
> FWIW neither did I mention the English language, nor Arch Linux
> (resp.
> I mentioned it, because somebody else linked to the Arch Wiki + the
> Ubuntu help) for this thread, my complains are regarding technical
> issues and I'm willing to learn.
you excused yourself plenty of times with "not being a native english
speaker" on this list since you are here ... which would make me think
that you at some point simply get super cautious about what you write
given you are aware of this and that it sets up people if you pick the
wrong tone...

> 
> Ok, since you seem to know gnome-disks and you didn't correct Colin
> [1], I assume gnome-disks is a GUI to edit fstab. My apologies, I
> wasn't aware of it, since I did not find any help page or Wiki
> mentioning it.
just try it on your ubuntu install ...
hit the super (windows) key ... type "disk" and hit enter again ...
then select your partition, check the checkmark "mount on boot", then
take a look at your fstab

the disk utility is far more than a frontend to fstab as you might see
if you open it ... 
it is also the graphical tool to manage partitions or to format flash
drives, set up raid and lvm clusers etc.

> It still would be interesting to learn how fsck, recommended by the
> Ubuntu fstab help, is managed when using gnome-disks. Since I didn't
> see a screenshot that shows fsck settings, I suspect it automatically
> writes the value 2 to fstab, or how is it handled?
dunno, try it out but effectively that field is legacy nonsense anyway.
unless you use ext2 or minix disks without journalling ...

> You didn't say a word, about my objection regarding mtab. Somebody
> mentioned that copying a mtab entry of a manually mounted device to
> fstab would be ok. 

no i ldidnt, since i wouldnt advise a normal enduser to tinker with
either of them from the start ... very simple ... nowadays mtab is (or
should be, i dont know if update-manager already switches it over on
upgrades yet for all releases) a link to /proc/mounts (until it
hopefully goes away within the next year or two), it is indeed not
suited for using the lines unmodified, but it will give you all info
you need for an fstab entry, it is just a matter of putting it into the
right order ...

ciao
	oli
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