Auto Mount problems (Trusty)

[Grizzly]

Monday, March 28, 2016  at 10:18, Chris Green wrote:
Re: Auto Mount problems (Trusty) (at least in part)

>On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 09:42:03AM +0100, Grizzly wrote:
>> Hi	
>> 
>> Having a real problem with auto mounting  my Windoz partition (same disk as 
>> Trusty) I thought it was just "one of those things" I could work around (click 
>> disk icon in launcher before ...) but after installing Trusty on a friends PC 
>> that was to be used as a remote Plex Server I found and tried (both here and 
>> the there) work around "unchecking show icon" in automouut, alowed Plex to 
>> configure and run B U T then he could not see it (the drive) to add content!!
>> 
>> Is this going to be addressed in 14.04.5 (or maybe in 16.04) ? 
>> 
>Are you really trying to automount a partition on the same drive?
>Automount is really for remote (i.e. other computer) drives to be
>mounted.

I wasn't until I hit the Plex problem and the (inperfect) fix, which got me 
thinking about why my home (search) page located on my Win7 partition is never 
found, unless I have accessed the Win7 drive before the browser

I looked at /etc/fstab (a lot more messy than yours) but the scary warnings 
about frigging the total system if you get it wrong made me weary 

>Just put the windows partition in /etc/fstab, I have:-
>    #
>    # Windows 7 partitions
>    #
>    /dev/sda1                               /win7sys        ntfs
>    /dev/sda2                               /win7           ntfs
>
>... and they're there all the time.