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

Ralf Mardorf silver.bullet at zoho.com
Sun Nov 29 19:17:27 UTC 2015


On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 10:19:55 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>Not quite right, either of you.  The mtab entries use /dev/* names to
>identify the physical partition.  On some motherboards these can be
>different each time the machine reboots, and very likely to change if
>there's any other change to the attached devices including one of them
>going bad.  It's best to change these entries to use UUIDs, and this
>requires some care and expertise.  Not recommended for the newb

That is one of my objections ;), the other is related to the last
number, "0" for no fsck.

>Does anyone know if the GRUB utility does this?

AFAIK using the UUID is standard and update-grub2/grub-mkconfig generate
a grub.cfg with UUIDs, but I don't use it myself and can't test it.





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