[xubuntu-users] Why no default mount?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 7 May 2016 09:28:28 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Sat, 7 May 2016 01:41:34 -0230, Curt Dawe wrote:
>>See, I have my Xubuntu machine set up as a little media server using
>>TVmobili. So, for me, I need my drives to auto mount on boot so that
>>the TVmobili service can have access to the media on each disk
>>drive.  
>
>If you set up your machine, why didn't you set up to auto-mount all
>partitions? Googling for auto-mount
>
>https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=ssl#q=auto-mount+all+drives+linux
>https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=ssl#q=auto-mount+all+partitions+linux
>
>isn't hard to do
>
>You either could start a script by upstart/systemd or when starting a
>Xfce session, then perhaps the easiest way for you would to do so
>by using gksudo.
>
>One hit, e.g.
>
>http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/72393/mounting-all-partitions-on-hard-disk-automatically-on-linux-mint
>
>So from command line, the script and how to run it
>
>$ cat amount 
>#/bin/dash
>for i in $(lsblk -r |awk '{ print $1 }'|grep -v md |grep -v loop
>|grep .*[[:digit:]]|sort|uniq;); do
>    if [ -z  "$(grep  $i /proc/mounts)" ]‎
>    then  
>        mkdir -p /mnt/$i;
>        mount /dev/$i /mnt/$i
>    fi
>done
>exit
>$ gksudo ./amount
>
>Simply add it to the auto-start by
>
>$ xfce4-settings-manager
>
>Session and Startup > Application Autostart.
>
>The script isn't perfect, it doesn't auto-mount e.g. ufs2 or ntfs on
>my machine, but it's possible even to provide this.
>
>Strange, since from command line it worked for ntfs.
>
>$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
>The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
>The file system wasn't safely closed on Windows. Fixing.
>
>And after that it was mounted.
>
>For the script you could check after mount was executed, if $? is
>equal to 0 or not and then run "mount -t" checking ntfs, ufs2 etc..

It either might be wanted to check if a partition is a swap and if so,
not to "mkdir -p" the directory.